I.p.52.Pasquier was eye-witness.

He leaned against the fence of the Beaumarchais garden and looked on, with mademoiselle Contat, the actress, at his side, who had left her carriage in the Place-Royale .-- Marat, "L'ami du peuple," No.530.

"When an unheard-of conjunction of circumstances had caused the fall of the badly defended walls of the Bastille, under the efforts of a handful of soldiers and a troop of unfortunate creatures, most of them Germans and almost all provincials, the Parisians presented themselves the fortress, curiosity alone having led them there."] [Footnote 1247: Narrative of the commander of the thirty-two Swiss .-- Narrative of Cholat, wine-dealer, one of the victors .-- Examination of Desnot (who cut off the head of M.de Launay).] [Footnote 1248: Montjoie, part 3, 85 .-- Dusaulx, 355, 287, 368.] [Footnote 1249: Nothing more.

No Witness states that he had seen the pretended note to M.do Launay.

According to Dusaulx, he could not have had either the time or the means to write it.] [Footnote 1250: Bailly, II.