Pauline de Tourzel herself suggested that the ladies-in-waiting, who gathered in one of the queen's chambers, should shut the windows and illuminate the room. When the mob entered the chamber where the ladies-in-waiting were gathered, the Princesse de Tarente, according to Pauline de Tourzel, approached one of the revolutionaries and asked for his protection. He agreed, and escorted her and Pauline de Tourzel from the palace. Following this example, the rest of the ladies-in-waiting departed the palace in about the same way. The princesse de Tarente and Pauline de Tourzel was escorted from the palace by the rebel, who left them on the street; they were there discovered by a mob who brought them to prison, but the prison director let them free, and de Tarente brought de Tourzel with her to her grandmother, from which she could later be united with her mother. Pauline rejoined her mother and the royal family at the convent where the assembly had detained them on the following day. Pauline accompanied the Royal family when they were transferred into the Temple Prison where she slept in the kitchen with Madame Elizabeth. On the 19th of August Pauline along with her mother, The Marquise de Tourzel and the Princesse de Lamballe were removed to the La Force Prison for interrogation. Prior to the September massacres, an unidentified Englishman helped Pauline escape from the prison; she was soon joined by her mother, who also escaped the massacres, though their fellow prisoner Princesse de Lamballe was killed. She and her mother were advised by their rescuer, a "Monsieur Hardi", to leave Paris because Pauline had had escaped the prison illegally and was in danger of arrest, and they left for the countryside, were they lived incognito in Vincennes and at the property of her son in Aboundant outside of Dreux. She continue to visit Marie Thérèse throughout her confinement in the Temple Prison, and continued to write to her during her exile after she left France in 1795, sending her a flower from the grave of her parents. Pauline de Tourzel married Alexandre Léon Luce de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, and was thereafter known as Comtesse de Bearn. Because of their well known sympathies for the Bourbon family, they were not well regarded by emperor Napoleon and their correspondance was reportedly surveilled by the secret police. Pauline and Marie Thérèse were reunited on 29 April 1814 at the Palace of Compiegne following the Bourbon restoration.