ten
o'clock
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 . He went to his lessons , as usual , and was reading to the king , when two officers came from the magistrates , to say that they must immediately take Louis to his mother . Argument was useless ; so Clery was desired to go with the boy . On his return , Clery gave comfort to the king by assuring him that Louis really was with his mother .