vivelareine: Several officers of the National Guard and some municipals arrived; the first desired

vivelareine:

Several officers of the National Guard and some municipals arrived; the first desired that my father should show himself at the window.

The municipals fortunately opposed this; but my father, having asked what was happening, a young officer replied: “Well, if you want to know, it is the head of Mme. de Lamballe they wish to show you.”

My mother was seized with horror; that was the sole moment when her firmness abandoned her.

–from Madame Royale’s account of 3 September 1792