country. The King once more swearing to the Constitution at the Feast of the Federates, wore armour underneath his clothes, and 146 insurrection was obviously brewing. The Court fortified the Tuileries and gathered about them whatever Royalist force was available, including the Swiss Guard; and a desperate resistance was prepared for with the faint hope of the King being able to cut himself out and reach the frontier; but the 10th of August ended the matter. Those Constitutionalists who had any intention of supporting the Court found their hearts failing them, and even the “constitutional” battalions of the National Guard were prepared to take the popular side. The King and royal family left the Tuileries for the Legislature, leaving no orders for the unlucky Swiss, who with mechanical military courage stood their ground. The insurrectionary sections attacked the Tuileries and carried it, though not without heavy loss—1200 killed, the Swiss being all slain except a few who were carried off to prison. On the 13th August, the King and his family were bestowed as prisoners in the Temple, and the first act of the Revolution had come to an end.
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