Pierre-Louis MANUEL (1751-1793) Prosecutor of the Commune of Paris. L.S., Paris March 5, 1792, to PALLOY, "contractor of the demolitions of the Bastille"; half page in-4, header and vignette of the Municipality of Paris, address with countersignature of Petion, red wax seal; following, autograph minute of PALLOY's answer (2 p. in-4 in pencil, partly erased but transcribed entirely in ink). Demolition of the Bastille. MANUEL warns Palloy that "the General Council decided that the account which you have to return of the demolition of the Bastille would be presented in the ordinary form, and that according to the use it would be given to the municipal body". PALLOY answers... "I convened, according to the requests, by deputations, the bodies, both civil and military in the arrondissemt of the department of Paris, to be witnesses of the surrender of my mission of work of the Bastille, that the people had entrusted to me at the time when all the French were all equal, not of the accounts, because I am not accountable; but well of the crossings which I had in the course of two years. Thus, I promised to the people, on July 16, 1789, in the presence of the electors [...] to give an account of my mission in the hall [...] I must carry it out, or pass for a jean foutre, or for an aristocrat, it is not in my feelings, I am an honest man and patriot. I wanted to leave on October 8, 1790, but they did not receive my resignation. On May 24, 1791, Mr. the Mayor made me the refusal, I believed to find in the new Municipality, frank men and who liked to learn about what had happened, to judge the honest man and to welcome his patriotism, I see with pain the opposite "...Former collections of the Autographophile F. Jolly de Thuisy (his label), then Alain Taillade (his ink stamp, March 28, 1985 n° 75).