<P> Two of the invalides of the garrison were lynched, but all but two of the Swiss regulars of the Salis - Samade Regiment were protected by the French Guards and eventually released to return to their regiment . Their officer, Lieutenant Louis de Flue, wrote a detailed report on the defense of the Bastille, which was incorporated in the logbook of the Salis - Samade and has survived . It is (perhaps unfairly) critical of the dead Marquis de Launay, whom de Flue accuses of weak and indecisive leadership . The blame for the fall of the Bastille would rather appear to lie with the inertia of the commanders of the 5,000 Royal Army troops encamped on the Champ de Mars, who did not act when either the nearby Hôtel des Invalides or the Bastille were attacked . </P> <P> Returning to the Hôtel de Ville, the mob accused the prévôt dès marchands (roughly, mayor) Jacques de Flesselles of treachery, and he was assassinated en route to an ostensible trial at the Palais - Royal . </P> <P> The king first learned of the storming only the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld . "Is it a revolt?" asked Louis XVI . The duke replied: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution ." </P> <P> The citizenry of Paris, expecting a counterattack, entrenched the streets, built barricades of paving stones, and armed themselves as well as they could, especially with improvised pikes . Meanwhile, at Versailles, the Assembly remained ignorant of most of the Paris events, but eminently aware that Marshal de Broglie stood on the brink of unleashing a pro-Royalist coup to force the Assembly to adopt the order of 23 June and then to dissolve . The vicomte de Noailles apparently first brought reasonably accurate news of the Paris events to Versailles . M. Ganilh and Bancal - des - Issarts, dispatched to the Hôtel de Ville, confirmed his report . </P>

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