DAY OF JUNE 20, 1792. L.A.S. by DEMAILLES, Paris July 27, 1792, to a friend; 8 pages in-fol. Long and very interesting letter on the day of June 20, 1792, when the people invaded the Tuileries and forced Louis XVI to don the Phrygian cap and drink to the nation's health; but Louis XVI refused to recall the ministers and withdraw his veto. Demailles, after serving the Prince de Béthune, who wanted to raise the Netherlands and become Duke of Brabant, became an employee of the Caisse de l'Extraordinaire, of which Amelot was administrator. His first revolutionary misadventure came at the beginning of July 1792, when he tried to rescue a man pursued by the mob for having defended Lafayette; he was in turn beaten, dragged into the creek, and only escaped death by taking refuge in a house from which he was able to escape at night thanks to a disguise... This is followed by an account of the day of June 20, with Demailles emphasizing Madame Élisabeth's heroic conduct: "You will have heard of the atrocities committed against the King and his family, as well as the steadfastness shown by the Monarch, which many people believed him incapable of, and I can assure you that it was almost impossible to believe that this day was not the King's last ; Among the people who saved her from the blows that were intended to be dealt to her, Madame Elizabeth can be counted as the one who contributed the most, for having seized the King by the flap of his habit, she did not leave him until the scelerats who had taken over the castle were outside, and she shouted to them several times, "You will not approach the King until you have stepped on my body"; The virtue of this Princess was on full display in this event, which posterity will find hard to believe. One of the brigands who were most intent on destroying the King's life approached her close enough to touch her with the pike he was armed with, and she kindly said to him, taking him by the arm, "My friend, I know you don't want to hurt me, so turn away from your weapon, with which you could injure me without meaning to. Then, as the second horde of assassins entered the apartment where she was with the King, shouting: "Where is the Austrian, we need her head", Madame Elizabeth heard these cries and repeated these words several times to Mr de Bougainville, who had not left the King: "My God, if they could take me for the Queen! She uttered these words loud enough to be heard by those around her, as well as by the King, who, pressing her to his heart, tried to persuade her that he was unconcerned for him and the Queen in the midst of the murderers his kindness still called his people"... Lafayette is "the target of the Jacobins' vengeance", whom Demailles later calls "Jacoquins"... The letter ends with an account of the attack on d'Éprémesnil at the Palais-Royal, "indignantly massacred with sabers by federates [...] after receiving fifteen saber blows, he was torn naked from the hands of his assassins, and is now perhaps expired"... We enclose 2 printed documents dated June 22, 1792: Proclamation du Roi, Sur les Événemens du 20 Juin (printed in Var) and Proclamation de l'Assemblée Nationale (printed in Vannes).