CHAPTER XXIV.
Troops are brought up from the Frontier .-- The Assembly petitions the King to withdraw them .-- He refuses .-- He dismisses Necker .-- -The Baron de Breteuil is appointed Prime Minister .-- Terrible Riots in Paris .-- The Tri-color Flag is adopted .-- Storming of the Bastile and Murder of the Governor .-- The Count d'Artois and other Princes fly from the Kingdom .-- The King recalls Necker .-- Withdraws the Soldiers and visits Paris .-- Formation of the National Guard.-Insolence of La Fayette and Bailly .-- Madame de Tourzel becomes Governess of the Royal Children--Letters of Marie Antoinette on their Character, and on her own Views of Education.
But even so solemn, a grief as that for a dead child she was not suffered to indulge long.

Even for such a purpose royalty is not always allowed the respite which would be conceded to those in a more moderate station; and affairs in Paris began to assume so menacing a character that she was forced to rouse herself to support her husband.

Demagogues in Paris excited the lower classes of the citizens to formidable tumults.

The troops were tampered with; they mutinied; and when the Assembly so violated its duty as to take the mutineers under its protection, and to intercede with the king for their pardon, Louis, or, as we should probably say, Necker, did not venture to refuse, though it was plain that the condign punishment of such an offense was indispensable to the maintenance of discipline for the future.

And Louis felt the humiliation so deeply that some of those about him, the Count d'Artois taking the lead in that party, were able to induce him to bring up from the frontier some German and Swiss regiments, which, as not having been exposed to the contagion of the capital, were free from the prevailing taint of disloyalty.