One of the lying rumors used to stir the people of Paris into insurrection was that 15,000 aristocrats were ready to massacre all the patriots. The people were then told that, to prevent this planned massacre, the King's residence must be invaded and the Monarchy mo . ° and overthrown. This was the opposite of what was about to happen. It was not the aristocrats who were planning a massacre, it was the revolutionaries. As had happened at Versailles, when the mob invaded the King's residence, he instructed his guards not to fire on the crowd to Upon the fall of the Tuileries, the mob went mad in a rage of destruction. Everything in their path was an object of spoliation. Furniture, mirrors, paintings, art work, jewels, all were pillaged or destroyed. Thousands of bottles of wine were taken from the wine cellars and The Swiss guards who had remained at their posts were barbarously butchered, including the wounded that lay helpless on the floor. The savage horde tracked down their victims from the deepest cellars to the highest attics. All were put to death. People danced amid torrents of blood and wine. One man played the violin beside the corpses as the dead bodies were mutilated. Fires were kindled in the apartments and "cutlets of Swiss" were grilled and eaten in cannibal orgies. One man caught up in a fit of revolutionary frenzy, drank a glass of blood. 43 The French Revolution protect him. a drunken orgy followed.