"Their orders were not to fire until the word was given, and not before the national guard had set the example."] [Footnote 2691: Buchez et Roux, XVI, 443.

Narration by Petion .-- Peltier, "Histoire du 10 aout."] [Footnote 2692: M.de Nicolay wrote the following day, the 11th of August: "The federates fired first, which was followed by a sharp volley from the chateau windows." (Le Comte de Fersen et la cour de France.

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347.)] [Footnote 2693: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.491.The abandonment of the Tuileries is proved by the small loss of the assailants.

(List of the wounded belonging to the Marseilles corps and of the killed and wounded of the Brest corps, drawn up Oct.

16, 1792 .-- Statement of the aid granted to wounded Parisians, to widows, to orphans, and to the aged, October, 1792, and then 1794.)--The total amounts to 74 dead and 54 severely wounded The two corps in the hottest of the fight were the Marseilles band, which lost 22 dead and 14 wounded, and the Bretons, who lost 2 dead and 5 wounded.