Fortunately the members were not injured but the conflict worsened in such a way that political avenues to resolve it were discarded altogether. Two detachments of the French guards, from the company of grenadiers Reffuveille and the company of fusiliers of Lubersac (3 sergeants, 2 caporales and 58 men) had been made available to the Standing Committee becoming Navy walk from City Hall. Since one o’clock in the afternoon they planned the storming of the Bastille up to a so-called bourgeois Pierre-Auguste Hulin, director of the laundry of the Queen, appeared before them and said to them: my friends, are you citizens? Yes, you are! We leave the Bastille because there are degollando the bourgeoisie and his comrades!. These guards who did not expect if not a boss, they marched right away, in the company of some civilians along the banks of the Seine towards arsenal. They were something like five hundred and some guns that had more value than the same men at the time of the capitulation. Almost at the same time that this column started another of similar dimensions from the Mayor’s Office by the Rue Saint-Antoine, under the direction of Jacob-Job Elie, dressed in white uniform and carrying the flag of the Queen’s Regiment.
How absolutely naive and unprofessional shoot cannons gave enough that talk in the future, but did little damage to walls ten feet of thickness of the Bastille. However, the stubbornness of the assailants and their unfettered will take this fortress that symbolized les injustices and inequalities of the Ancien Regime, led them to, finally, move two cannons face the drawbridge and the small bridge. After something like this fire as 12 rounds (six more or less each, according to J-B Humbert) did harm to any person, the Marquis of Launay appeared to have lost his head and without consulting anyone from his staff or lining and without hearing the opinion of anyone, made to redouble the drums to surrender.