Chapter XXIV
Reading edition
Familiarity of French Servants—Power of the People—Misguided Men—Further Rumours—Who are the People?—An Intruder—A Revolutionary Hero—The Tuileries and the Louvre taken—Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of the Dauphin—The Terrible and the Comic—Trophies of Victory—The Palace of the Archbishop of Paris sacked—Concessions of Charles the Tenth—The Duchesse de Berri—Lord Stuart de Rothesay—Noble Conduct—The Duchesse de Guiche—Her trying Situation—The Provisional Government—The Tri-coloured Flag—Meeting of the Deputies—Bitter Feeling towards the Royal Family Bravery of the Populace—Lafayette and his followers—Scene in the Street—"The Good Cause"—The wealthy M. Laffitte—Valuable Collections at Paris—Courageous Conduct of the Duchesse de Guiche—Her Champions—Attack on the Hôtel of the Duc de Guiche—Comte Alfred d'Orsay—Painful Position, 272.