<P> Late in the evening, Lafayette's national guardsmen approached up the Avenue de Paris . Lafayette immediately left his troops and went to see the king, grandly announcing himself with the declaration, "I have come to die at the feet of Your Majesty". Outside, an uneasy night was spent in which his Parisian guardsmen mingled with the marchers, and the two groups sounded each other out . Many in the crowd persuasively denounced Lafayette as a traitor, complaining of his resistance to leaving Paris and the slowness of his march . By the first light of morning, an alliance of the national guards and the women was evident, and as the crowd's vigor was restored, their roughneck poissard clamoring resumed . </P> <P> At about six o'clock in the morning, some of the protesters discovered a small gate to the palace was unguarded . Making their way inside, they searched for the queen's bedchamber . The royal guards raced throughout the palace, bolting doors and barricading hallways and those in the compromised sector, the cour de marbre, fired their guns at the intruders, killing a young member of the crowd . Infuriated, the rest surged towards the breach and streamed inside . </P> <P> Two guardsmen, Miomandre and Tardivet, each separately attempted to face down the crowd and were overpowered . The violence boiled over into savagery as Tardivet's head was shorn off and raised aloft on a pike . As battering and screaming filled the halls around her, the queen ran barefoot with her ladies to the king's bedchamber and spent several agonizing minutes banging on its locked door, unheard above the din . In a close brush with death, they barely escaped through the doorway in time . </P> <P> The chaos continued as other royal guards were found and beaten; at least one more was killed and his head too appeared atop a pike . Finally, the fury of the attack subsided enough to permit some communication between the former French Guards, who formed the professional core of Lafayette's National Guard militia, and the royal gardes du corps . The units had a history of cooperation and a military sense of mutual respect, and Lafayette, who had been snatching a few hours of sleep in his exhaustion, awoke to make the most of it . To the relief of the royals, the two sets of soldiers were reconciled by his charismatic mediation and a tenuous peace was established within the palace . </P>

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