six in the morning
As it turned out , the king not only lost his desired security , but , by his and the queen 's management together , the whole region beyond Chalons was in an uproar before they entered it . Meantime , the party had travelled only sixty-nine of their two hundred miles in twenty-two hours ; and little Louis must have been sadly tired before they had gone nearly half-way . On and on they went , however , through the night and all the next day , little knowing how fast messengers from Paris were racing all over the kingdom , to give the news of their flight . Lafayette had been roused , at six in the morning of the 21st , by a note from a gentleman who had been informed that the king 's rooms at the Tuileries were empty . The whole city was in consternation , and Lafayette 's life in great danger . Tranquillity was preserved , however . Messengers galloped off in every direction ; and one of these it was who , going north-east , spread the alarm which made the herb-man go and tell what he had seen in the wood of Bondy .