. Mediæval et l'histoire moderne . Ies sur les mauvais disciplinésforces de l'Assemblée législative, et le duc de Brunswick, commandant de l'armée prussienne, avança rapidement sur Paris.une proclamation insolente que ce général vient de publier, où il ordonna à la nation française de se soumettre à leur roi, A menacé les Parisiens de la destruction de leur ville shouldany mal être fait la famille royale, a conduit le français peoplefrantique avec indignation et rage. La première flambée de la fureur populaire s'est produite à Paris. Themob de la capitale a été gonflée par l'arrivée des bandes de 458 le FRENC cueilli

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. Mediæval and modern history . ies over the ill-disciplinedforces of the Legislative Assembly, and the Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Prussian army, advanced rapidly upon Paris.An insolent proclamation which this general now issued, whereinhe ordered the French nation to submit to their king, andthreatened the Parisians with the destruction of their city shouldany harm be done the royal family, drove the French peoplefrantic with indignation and rage. The first outbreak of the popular fury occurred in Paris. Themob of the capital was swollen by the arrival of bands of picked 458 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION [§520 men from other parts of France. From the south came the sixhundred Marseillais who knew how to die. They brought withthem a better contingent than ten thousand pikemen, —theMarseillaise Hymn, the martial song of the Revolution.^ On the morning of the loth of August the hordes of the citywere mustered. The Palace of the Tuileries, defended by severalhundred Swiss soldiers, the remnant of the royal guard, was. PiG. 87. The Lion of Lucerne.- (From a photograph) assaulted. The royal family fled for safety to the hall of theAssembly close by. A terrible struggle followed in the corridorsand upon the grand stairways of the palace. The Swiss stoodsteadfast as the granite of their Alps. But they were over-whelmed at last, and all were killed, either in the building itselfor in the surrounding courts and streets.- 1 This famous war song was composed in t7<)2 by Roiiget de Lisle, a young Frenchengineer. 2 The number of Swiss guards slain was over seven hundred. Their fidehty anddevotion are commemorated by one of the most impressive monuments in Europe, theso-called Lion of Lucerne, at Lucerne in Switzerland. In a large recess in a cliff adying lion, pierced by a lance, protects with its paw the Bourbon lilies. The wonderfullylifelike figure is cut out of the natural rock. The designer of the memorial was thecelebrated Danish sculptor Thorvaldsen, § 521] THE MAS

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