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[32] Peuchet ("Encyclopédie Méthodique," 1789, quoted by Parent Duchatelet): "Almost all of the soldiers of the Guard belong to that class (the procurers of public women): many, indeed, only enlist in the corps that they may live at the expense of these unfortunates."[33] Gouverneur Morris, "Liberty is now the general cry; authority is a name and no longer a reality." (Correspondence with Washington, July 19th.)[34] Bailly. I. 302. "The King was very well-disposed; his measures were intended only to preserve order and the public peace.

. . Du Chatelet was forced by facts to acquit M. de Bezenval of attempts against the people and the country." -- Cf. Marmontel, IV. 183; Mounier, II, 40.

[35] Desmoulins, letter of the 16th July. Buchez and Roux, II. 83.

[36] Trial of the Prince de Lambesc (Paris, 1790), with the eighty-three depositions and the discussion of the testimony. - It is the crowd which began the attack. The troops fired in the air. But one man, a sieur Chauvel, was wounded slightly by the Prince de Lambesc.

(Testimony of M. Carboire, p.84, and of Captain de Reinack, p.

101.) "M. le Prince de Lambesc, mounted on a gray horse with a gray saddle without holsters or pistols, had scarcely entered the garden when a dozen persons jumped at the mane and bridle of his horse and made every effort to drag him off. A small man in gray clothes fired at him with a pistol. . . . The prince tried hard to free himself, and succeeded by making his horse rear up and by flourishing his sword; without, however, up to this time, wounding any one. . . . He deposes that he saw the prince strike a man on the head with the flat of his saber who was trying to close the turning-bridge, which would have cut off the retreat of his troops The troops did no more than try to keep off the crowd which assailed them with stones, and even with firearms, from the top of the terraces." -- The man who tried to close the bridge had seized the prince's horse with one hand; the wound he received was a scratch about 23 lines long, which was dressed and cured with a bandage soaked in brandy. All the details of the affair prove that the patience and humanity of the officer, were extreme. Nevertheless "on the following day, the 13th, some one posted a written placard on the crossing Bussy recommending the citizens of Paris to seize the prince and quarter him at once." -- (Deposition of M. Cosson, p.114.

[37] Bailly, I. 3, 6. -- Marmontel, IV. 310[38] Montjoie, part 3, 86. "I talked with those who guarded the chateau of the Tuileries. They did not belong to Paris. . . . Afrightful physiognomy and hideous apparel." Montjoie, not to be trusted in many places, merits consultation for little facts of which he was an eye-witness. -- Morellet, "Mémoires," I. 374. -Dusaulx, "L'?uvre des sept jours," 352. - Revue Historique,"March, 1876. Interrogatory of Desnot. His occupation during the 13th of July (published by Guiffrey).

[39] Mathieu Dumas, "Mémoires," I. 531. "Peaceable people fled at the sight of these groups of strange, frantic vagabonds. Everybody closed their houses . . . . When I reached home, in the Saint-Denis quarter, several of these brigands caused great alarm by firing off guns in the air."[40] Dusaulx, 379.

[41] Dusaulx, 359, 360, 361, 288, 336. " In effect their entreaties resembled commands, and, more than once, it was impossible to resist them."[42] Dusaulx, 447 (Deposition of the invalides).-- "Revue Rétrospective," IV. 282 (Narrative of the commander of the thirty-two Swiss Guards).

[43] Marmontel, IV. 317.

[44] Dusaulx, 454. "The soldiers replied that they would accept whatever happened rather than cause the destruction of so great a number of their fellow-citizens."[45] Dusaulx, 447. The number of combatants, maimed, wounded, dead, and living, is 825. -- Marmontel, IV. 320. "To the number of victors, which has been carried up to 800, people have been added who were never near the place."[46] "Memoires", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc, 1767-1862), chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.

Vol. I. p.52. Pasquier was eye-witness. He leaned against the fence of the Beaumarchais garden and looked on, with mademoiselle Contat, the actress, at his side, who had left her carriage in the Place-Royale. -- Marat, "L'ami du peuple," No. 530. "When an unheard-of conjunction of circumstances had caused the fall of the badly defended walls of the Bastille, under the efforts of a handful of soldiers and a troop of unfortunate creatures, most of them Germans and almost all provincials, the Parisians presented themselves the fortress, curiosity alone having led them there."[47] Narrative of the commander of the thirty-two Swiss. --Narrative of Cholat, wine-dealer, one of the victors. --Examination of Desnot (who cut off the head of M. de Launay).

[48] Montjoie, part 3, 85. -- Dusaulx, 355, 287, 368.

[49] Nothing more. No Witness states that he had seen the pretended note to M. do Launay. According to Dusaulx, he could not have had either the time or the means to write it.

[50] Bailly, II. 32, 74, 88, 90, 95, 108, 117, 137, 158, 174. "Igave orders which were neither obeyed nor listened to. . . .

They gave me to understand that I was not safe." (July 15th.) "In these sad times one enemy and one calumnious report sufficed to excite the multitude. All who had formerly held power, all who had annoyed or restrained the insurrectionists, were sure of being arrested."[51] M. de Lafayette, "Mémoires," III. 264. Letter of July 16th, 1789. "I have already saved the lives of six persons whom they were hanging in different quarters."[52] Poujoulat. "Histoire de la Révolution Fran?aise," p.100 (with supporting documents). Procès-verbaux of the Provincial Assembly, lle-de-France (1787), p.127.

[53] For instance: "He is severe with his peasants." -- "He gives them no bread, and he wants them then to eat grass." "He wants them to eat grass like horses."-- "He has said that they could very well eat hay, and that they are no better than horses." -- The same story is found in many of the contemporary jacqueries.

[54] Bailly, II. 108. "The people, less enlightened and as imperious as despots, recognize no positive signs of good administration but success."[55] Bailly, II, 108, 95. - Malouet, II, 14.

[56] De Ferrières, I. 168.

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