2691 ([return])
[ Buchez et Roux, XVI, 443. Narration by Pétion.—Peltier, "Histoire du 10 août.">[
2692 ([return])
[ M. de Nicolay wrote the following day, the 11th of August: "The federates fired first, which was followed by a sharp volley from the château windows." (Le Comte de Fersen et la cour de France. II. 347.)]
2693 ([return])
[ 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.]
2694 ([return])
[ Napoleon's narrative.]
2695 ([return])
[ Pétion's account.]