He there found the faithful Marshal de Mouchy, who did not hesitate to offer the last days of his long life to his master; M.
d'Hervilly, the commandant of the Constitutional Horse Guard, disbanded a few days previously; the governor Acloque, commandant of the battalion of the faubourg St.Marceau, at first a moderate republican, then, overcome by the private virtues of Louis XVI., was his friend, and ready to die for him; three brave grenadiers of the battalion of the faubourg St.Martin, Lecrosnier, Bridau, and Gosse, who alone remained at their post of the interior on the general defection, and ready to protect the king with their bayonets, men of the people, strangers at court, rallied round him by the sole sentiment of duty and affection, only defending the man in the king.
At the moment the king entered this apartment, the doors of the adjacent room, called the _Salle des Nobles_, were dashed in by the blows of the assailants.

The king rushed forward to meet the danger.

The door-panels fell at his feet, lance heads, iron-shod sticks, spikes were thrust through the opening.

Cries of fury, oaths, imprecations accompanied the blows of the axe.

The king, in a firm voice, ordered two devoted _valets de chambre_, who accompanied him, Hue, and de Marchais, to open the doors.