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."