Their indignant accomplices checked them in their insolence, and made these dastards quit the room as speedily as possible.

Some even addressed looks of sympathy and compassion, others smiles, and others a few familiar words to the dauphin.

Conversations, half menacing, half respectful, were exchanged between the child and the throng.

"If you love the nation," said a volunteer to the queen, "put the _bonnet rouge_ on your son's head." The queen took the _bonnet rouge_ from this man's hands, and placed it herself on the dauphin's head.

The astonished child took these insults as play.