DIX août. Autograph manuscript by a Swiss officer, Relation - Lot 192

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DIX août. Autograph manuscript by a Swiss officer, Relation - Lot 192
DIX août. Autograph manuscript by a Swiss officer, Relation de l'affaire du 10 aout 1792 à Paris, ; 6 pages in-4 (note in English : " by a Swiss officer who was present). Lively account of the day of August 10 and the popular assault on the Tuileries, defended by the Swiss, by an officer then on duty. The witness tells of the arrival of the attackers, the review of the Guards and the Swiss by the King, and the orders given to defend the castle "until the last breath"... When cannon was fired against the castle, the Swiss, "like furious men", fired through the crossings... As they were about to run out of ammunition, the order came from the King to fall back on the National Assembly, which they did, then in the evening they surrendered their weapons, without being able to fall back on the barracks of Courbevoie. The officer tells us: "The deputies who had led us to the office of the inspectors of the hall, not wanting to oblige us halfway, provided us with frock coats, by means of which we had the happiness to escape. From then on, always wandering in Paris, fearing to be arrested as proscribed, although we were under the safeguard of the Law by a decree of August 110, it is very painful for honest people to be reduced to this cruel extremity. This report is exact, I give it for such, & I swear by what is most sacred, that we did not start the fire; that the regiment did not fire until after the National Guard had fired three or four cannon shots against the Castle"...
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