289.] [Footnote 2699: Mercier, "Le Nouveau Paris," II.

108.--"The Comte de Fersen et la Cour de France," II.348.

(Letter of Sainte-Foix, Aug.

11).
"The cellars were broken open and more than 10,000 bottles of wine of which I saw the fragments in the court, so intoxicated the people that I made haste to put an end to an investigation imprudently begun amidst 2,000 sots with naked swords, handled by them very carelessly."] [Footnote 26100: Napoleon's narrative .-- Memoirs of Barbaroux.] [Footnote 26101: Moniteur, XIII.

387 .-- Mortimer-Ternaux, II.