LOUIS DUVAL.

 and crime-passed away, and Louis was still king in
 name, but not in power; and even the name was soon
 to be denied him. The power had long ago passed
 into other hands. Once, the people were cruelly op-
 pressed by selfish and luxurious nobles; now, the
 tyrants of France were the most ignorant and vicious
 of the people.
 At midnight, on the 9th of August, 1792, those of
 the people of Paris who were asleep, were aroused from
 their slumbers by the violent ringing of the tocsin, or
 alarm bells of the city. Well was the meaning of that
 warning sound understood; and soon every street was
 in commotion. Here and there a few groups of soldiers
 and citizens were seen hastening to the palace of the
 Tuileries, to defend the King from violence; elsewhere
 were great mobs of desperate and ruthless men, march-
 ing to the same spot to dethrone, and, in all likelihood,
 to murder him. At about six o'clock, the heavy firing
 of cannon told the King and those about him that his
 foes were coming; and come they did, with terrible
 shouts of "Down with the tyrant, down with the traitor!
 no king-no tyrant; long live the nation; long live
 France; liberty for ever The frightened King and
 his family were persuaded to flee from the palace, and
 take refuge in the National Assembly-the Parliament
 of France, which then was sitting. They fled: the
 palace was taken; six hundred of the King's defenders
 were murdered; and that same day, in the National
 Assembly, Louis was told that he was king no longer,
 that France would no longer have a king; and that,
 instead of a palace, he must thenceforth be lodged in
 a prison, to answer for the crimes he had committed,
 and caused to be committed against his country.
 Those were some of the scenes of this French Revo-
lution.