Stanislas Maillard was a national guardsman known for having
taken a leading role in the attack on the Bastille. In 1790 he
testified before a commission established by the court in Paris
to investigate the events of October 1789. He exaggerates his
role in the events but gives a vivid account of the womens
march, especially their insistence on petitioning the deputies
in the National Assembly. Stanislas-Marie Maillard, twenty-six
years of age, captain in the Bastille Volunteers, residing in
the rue Bethizi at Paris, in the parish of St. Germain
l'Auxerrois, testified that at seven o'clock in the morning of 5
October last he went to the City Hall to lodge a complaint on
behalf of the volunteers. The city council was not in session,
but the rooms were filled with women who were trying to break in
all the doors of the rooms in the City Hall. This determined him
to go down to the headquarters of the National Guard in order to
receive the instructions of M. de Gouvion as how best to remedy
and prevent the destruc