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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: quantity of troops in the Place. Suddenly the gates of the gardens
of the Tuileries opened: we rushed forward, out gallopped an
enormous number of cuirassiers, in the middle of which were a
couple of low carriages, said first to contain the Count de Paris
and the Duchess of Orleans, but afterwards they said it was the
King and Queen; and then I heard he had abdicated. I returned and
gave the news.
'Went out again up the Boulevards. The house of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs was filled with people and "HOTEL DU PEUPLE"
written on it; the Boulevards were barricaded with fine old trees
that were cut down and stretched all across the road. We went
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