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The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine
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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
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'œuvre 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
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