#axels journal

“Terrible news from Paris. Thursday morning the palace [of the Tuileries] was attacked; the king and queen escaped to the Assembly. At one o´clock the populace were fighting in the courtyard and the Carousel. Blood flowed in streams; many killed and hanged; the palace forced on all sides; eight pieces of cannon levelled and firing upon it […] My god, what horrors!

[…] Mercy said in the evening that the Assembly had surrounded itself with cannon, and that step awed the factious. The king had either been deposed, or had abdicated of his own accord.”

- Axel von Fersen in his journal on the 13th of August 1792, three days after the events at the Assembly.