note 2689: De Lavalette, "Memoires," I. 81. "We there found the
grand staircase barred by a sort of beam placed across it, and defended
by several Swiss officers, who were civilly disputing its passage with
about fifty mad fellows, whose odd dress very much resembled that of the
brigands in our melodramas. They were intoxicated, while their coarse
language and queer imprecations indicated the town of Marseilles, which
had belched them forth."]

[Footnote 2690: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 314, 317 (questioning of M. de
Diesbach). "Their orders were not to fire until the word was given, and
not before the national guard had set the example."]

[Footnote 2691: Buchez et Roux, XVI, 443. Narration by Petion.--Peltier,
"Histoire du 10 aout."]

[Footnote 2692: M. de Nicolay wrote the following day, the 11th of
August: "The federates fired first, which was followed by a sharp volley
from the chateau windows." (Le Comte de Fersen et la cour de France. II.
347.)]

[Footnote 2693: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 491. The abandonment of the
Tuileries is proved by the small loss of the assailants. (List of the
wounded belonging to the Marseilles corps and of the killed and wounded
of the Brest corps, drawn up Oct. 16, 1792.--Statement of the aid
granted to wounded Parisians, to widows, to orphans, and to the aged,
October, 1792, and then 1794.)--The total amounts to 74 dead and 54
severely wounded The two corps in the hottest of the fight were the
Marseilles band, which lost 22 dead and 14 wounded, and the Bretons, who
lost 2 dead and 5 wounded. The sections that suffered the most were the
Quinze-Vingts (4 dead and 4 wounded), the Faubourg-Montmartre (3 dead),
the Lombards (4 wounded), and the Gravilliers (3 wounded).--Out of
twenty-one sections reported, seven declare that they did not lose
a man.--The Swiss regiment, on the contrary, lost 760 men and 26
officers.]

[Footnote 2694: Napoleon's narrative.]

[Footnote 2695: Petion's account.]

[Footnote 2696: Prudhomme's "Revolution de Paris," XIII. 236 and
237.--Barbaroux, 73.--Madame Campan, II. 250.]

[Footnote 2697: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 258.--Moore, I. 59. Some of
the robbers are killed. Moore saw one of them thrown down the grand
staircase.]

[Footnote 2698: Michelet, III. 289.]

[Footnote 2699: Mercier, "Le Nouveau Paris," II. 108.--"The Comte de
Fersen et la Cour de France," II. 348. (Letter of Sainte-Foix, Aug. 11).
"The cellars were broken open and more than 10,000 bottles of w