five in the morning of the 11th of December
`` No , '' Louis said , `` I am not ill ; but I have a little box to give you . I am glad you are come , at last , for I could hardly keep my eyes open ; and they have been shut several times , I believe . '' Seeing that Clery was moved , Louis kissed him ; and then was asleep in a minute . At five in the morning of the 11th of December , everybody in the Temple was awakened by the noise of cavalry and cannon entering the garden , and the drums beating throughout the city . Louis did not know what this meant ; but his parents understood that the king was to be brought to trial , and that this noise arose from the military preparations for the great event . His father took him by the hand , and led him to breakfast , as usual , at nine o'clock . Nobody said much , because the guards were in the room ; but he saw his father and mother look very expressively at each other when he and his father were going downstairs again , at ten o'clock .