Horace Walpole's Letters, September 5, 1789 .-- M.

de Lafayette, "Memoires," I.272.

During the week following the 14th of July, 6,000 soldiers deserted and went over to the people, besides 400 and 800 Swiss Guards and six battalions of the French Guards, who remain without officers, and do as they please.

Vagabonds from the neighboring villages flock in, and there are more than "30,000 strangers and vagrants" in Paris.] [Footnote 1416: Bailly, II.282.The crowd of deserters was so great that Lafayette was obliged to place a guard at the barriers to keep them from entering the city.

"Without this precaution the whole army would have come in."] [Footnote 1417: De Ferrieres, I.103 .-- De Lavalette, I.39 .-- Bailly, I.
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