one o'clock
First , numbers of the servants were sent off , to get everything made ready for the king , who was to follow on the 18th , to dinner . The servants were allowed to go without opposition ; so that on the 18th , the apartments at Saint Cloud were ready , the dinner was cooking , and the attendants looking out along the road to Paris , wondering why the carriages did not appear , and fearing the dinner would be spoiled . Nobody came to eat it , however , unless it was given to the National Guard , a detachment of whom had gone forward , to be on duty about the palace . At one o'clock , the great royal coach , drawn by its eight black horses , drove up to the palace-gate in Paris ; and immediately the alarm-bell from a neighbouring church-steeple began to sound . The family were almost ready ; but multitudes of people , summoned by the bell , collected presently , and declared that the coach should not move . Lafayette and his officers came up , and did what they could in the way of persuasion : but the crowd said , `` Hold your tongues . The king shall not go . ''