[167] M. Rabaud de St. Etienne, vol. i., p. 66.
[168] "Its walls, ten feet thick at the top of its towers, and thirty or forty at the base, might long laugh at cannon-balls. Its batteries, firing down upon Paris, could in the mean time demolish the whole of the Marais and the Faubourg St. Antoine. Its towers pierced with windows and loop-holes, protected by double and triple gratings, enabled the garrison in full security to make a dreadful carnage of its assailants."—Michelet, vol. i., p. 143.
[169] Thiers, vol. i., p. 69.
[170] "Old men," says Michelet, "who have had the happiness and the misery to see all that has happened in this unprecedented half century, declared that the grand and national achievements of the Republic and the Empire had, nevertheless, a partial non-unanimous character. But that the 14th of July alone was the day of the whole people."—Michelet, vol. i., p. 144.
[171] Histoire Des Montagnards par Alphonse Esquiros, p. 17.
[172] Michelet, vol. i., p. 156.
[173] "Properly speaking the Bastille was not taken, it surrendered. Troubled by a bad conscience, it went mad, and lost all presence of mind."—Michelet, vol. i., p. 156.
THE KING RECOGNIZES THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.