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.)] [Footnote 1237: Bailly, I. 3, 6.--Marmontel, IV. 310] [Footnote 1238: Montjoie, part 3, 86. "I talked with those who guarded the château of the Tuileries. They did not belong to Paris. . . . A frightful 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'oeuvre des sept jours," 352.--Revue Historique," March, 1876. Interrogatory of Desnot. His occupation during the 13th of July (published by Guiffrey).] [Footnote 1239: 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."] [Footnote 1240: Dusaulx, 379.] [Footnote 1241: Dusaulx, 359, 360, 361, 288, 336. "In effect their entreaties resembled commands, and, more than once, it was impossible to resist them."] [Footnote 1242: Dusaulx, 447 (Deposition of the invalides).--"Revue Rétrospective," IV. 282 (Narrative of the commander of the thirty-two Swiss Guards).] [Footnote 1243: Marmontel, IV. 317.] [Footnote 1244: 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."] [Footnote 1245: 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."] [Footnote 1246: "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."] [Footnote 1247: 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).] [Footnote 1248: Montjoie, part 3, 85.--Dusaulx, 355, 287, 368.] [Footnote 1249: 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.]