 He seated himself in it with the priest, with two militiamen sitting opposite them.The carriage left the Temple at approximately 9 o'clock.For more than an hour the carriage, preceded by drummers playing to drown out any support for the King and escorted by a cavalry troop with drawn sabres, made its way through Paris along a route lined with 80,000 men-at-arms (soldiers of the National Guard and sans-culottes).