A little calm succeeded at Versailles the political and mental tempests which we have chronicled.
The King breathed again: and consoled himself with his regaled popularity for what his Bourbon pride had suffered in truckling to the Paris mob. The Nobility prepared to flee or to resist. The people watched and waited.
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