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serted and the officers lost all control over the troops. The French 

 guards went to different quarters of the city, especially to the 

 Palais Royal. M. du Chatelet then decided to act.*^^ He arrested 

 eleven soldiers who had sworn fidelity to the nation and had them 

 imprisoned in the Abbey of Saint Germain. One of the guards 

 succeeded in sending a letter from the Abbey prison in which he 

 complained of the treatment received and asked the people to 

 deliver them.^"" This letter, which was read at the Palais Royal, 

 stated that the soldiers wtvt imprisoned for having refused to 

 turn their arms against the people and that it was to the honor and 

 the interest of the people to deliver them.^°^ Haste was necessary 

 because they were to be transferred to Bicetre that evening.^"^ ^ 

 crowd started from the Palais Royal for the Abbey.^**^ The num- 

 ber increased as the crowd advanced and it is said that ten, even 

 twenty thousand^"* people, finally reached the Abbey. Little resist- 



493 Rouff, Marcel, " Le peuple ouvrier de Paris aux journees du 30 juin 

 et du 30 Aout 1789," La revolution franqaise, November, 1912, 434-437. 



^^^ Rouff, " Le peuple ouvrier de Paris aux journees du 30 juin et du 30 

 Aout 1789, La revolution francaise, November, 1912, 443 ; Duquesnoy, 

 Journal, I, 149, saj^s that the letter was written to M. Valady and that 

 there were two grenadiers placed in the abbey and that one of these wrote 

 to Valady. Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 55 (July 2) ; Journal de Hardy, 

 June 30, VIII, 272, states that word was brought that the soldiers were im- 

 prisoned, but does not say that a letter was sent; Bulletins d'un agent secret, 

 June 30, states that some one mounted a chair and haranged the people. 

 This agrees with the Gazette de Leyde when it says that some one mounted 

 a chair to read the letter. 



501 Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 55 (July 2) ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 149, 

 states that the letter was read by M. Valady. 



°02 Rouff, " Le peuple ouvrier de Paris au 30 juin et du 30 Aout 1789," 

 La revolution frangaise, November, 1912, 444; Journal de Hardy, June 30, 

 VIII, 2,72; Gazette de Leyde, Sup. No. 55 (July 2). 



503 Journal de Hardy, June 30, VIII, 272, says 300 left the Palais Royal ; 

 Duquesnoy, Journal, 1, 149, says 400 or 500 left the Palais Royal ; Bulletins 

 d'un agent secret, June 30, says about 3,000 people left the Palais Royal, 

 but this is without doubt overestimated. Biauzat, Sa vie et sa corre- 

 spondance, II, 152, gives the number almost as high, between 2,000 and 

 3,000. 



504 Rouff, " Le peuple ouvrier de Paris au 30 juin, etc.," La revolution 

 frangaise, November, 1912, 444, gives 10,000 or 12,000; Duquesnoy, Journal, 



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