The Celebrated Madame Campan, Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette And Confidante of Napoleon
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During the fatal night of August 9-10 the commissaries, assembled at the Hotel de Ville, had summoned Mandat to appear before them and answer a charge of having on his own responsibility caused the palace of the Tuileries to be fortified. M. Mandat replied that he had acted in obedience to Potion's commands. While he was still defending himself, a letter was produced bearing his signature, in which he charged the mayor of Paris to repulse any popular attack against the Tuileries with shot and s...teel. Mandat was immediately arrested. While he was being conducted down the steps of the Hotel de Ville preparatory to being marched off to the prison of the Abbaye, he was shot by some person in the crowd. "The day broke," writes Mme Campan ; "the king, the queen, Mme Elisabeth, Madame, and the Dauphin descended in order to review the National Guard; some uttered cries of ' Vive le roiV I was standing at a window looking over the garden ; I saw some gunners leave their post, go up to the king and shake their fists in his face, calling him the most insulting names.
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