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Marigny. All three faced the river and opened on the Place du 

 Carrousel. These were guarded by detachments of the battalions 

 Petits-Peres and Petit Saint-Antoine under command of Perre 

 and Mussery with orders to prevent armed citizens from enter- 

 ing.^**' The guard at first resisted the crowd which tried to enter 

 the gates. But when two municipal officers — the one (Alouchet ) 

 " little, brown and bandy-legged " — presented themselves at the 

 head of a group at the Porte Marigny,"^ the guard allowed the 

 column to enter. Mouchet insisted that they meant only to cross 

 the Carrousel.^*"* When this group had passed, the guards again 

 defended the entrance against the crowd. Soon Hii and Patris, 

 two municipal officers who had been ordered to the gate of the 

 Louvre by a superior officer, arrived. They had been told there 

 was some trouble in the attempted execution of an order. When 

 they asked him what the order was, he replied, " Allow all per- 

 sons armed, in whatever manner, to enter, but do not admit any 

 unarmed." This seemed an unreasonable order and directly 

 opposed to that which the national guards had received, but the 

 officers executed it and then all entered, armed and unarmed 

 alike, rushing in like a torrent in spite of the national guards.^'*' 

 At the beginning of the march through the assembly, Saint- 

 Prix, commandant of the battalion Val-de-Grace, who we saw 

 was forced to march with the citizens when they set out from the 



^'^^ Lagarde, " Rapport de revenement " etc. ; " Declaration de Perre." 



'" " Proces-verbal diesse par Mouchet." 



"""Declarations regus par le juge de la paix de la section du Roi de 

 Sicile," signed by Turot, Mussery and five of Mussery's subordinates. 

 These men all speak of the physical infirmity of Mouchet and of his being 

 so small that his scarf dragged in the dust. Lagard, Adj. Gen. of the 

 4" legion says that he was small with a spiritless, thin face. " Rapport 

 de I'evenement." 



"" Same as above. Also " Declaration de Perre " ; " Declaration du 

 sieur Desmousseaux " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Patris ; " " Proces-verbal 

 dresse par Hii;" "Rapport du chef de quatrieme legion" [Mandat] ; 

 Roederer in a report to the department read in the assembly, July 6, 

 1792, says that the accusation that two municipal officers gave the order 

 to admit all armed citizens is absurd and contradicted by the facts, His- 

 toire parhmentaire, XV, 424. But Hu and Patris themselves say they 

 received such an order and executed it. 



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