Monsieur Necker is dismissed. This is the signal for a St. Bartholomew’s day of the patriots. This evening the Swiss and German battalions will slit our throats. We have but one resource: To Arms.CAMELLE DES MOULINS AT THE PA LAIS ROYALEStill the people spoke of the King with affection and appeared to think his character favourable to the desire of the nation for the reform of what was called abuses; but they imagined that he was restrained by the opinions and influence of the Comte d’Artois and the Queen; and those two august personages were therefore objects of hatred to the malcontents.LOUIS XVI’S JOURNALThe Fourteenth of JulyThe four candles had gone out and it seemed that the lights of my life were going out for me. Two children lost in less than two years. I turned to those left to me—my serene and lovely daughter, whom I called affectionately Mousseline, loving and calm, never causing me anxiety, and my dearest son. The new Dauphin was very different from his brother, wilful yet lovable, and even more passionately devoted to me; he was by nature gay, and one of the best tonics I could have during those days of mourning was to hear his merry laughter as he played his games.
