On leaving the barricade of the Rue Ste. Marguerite, De Flotte went to the Faubourg St. Marceau, Madier de Montjau went to Belleville, Charamaule and Maigne proceeded to the Boulevards.  Schoelcher, Dulac, Malardier, and Brillier again went up the Faubourg St. Antoine by the side streets which the soldiers had not yet occupied.  They shouted, “Vive la Republique!” They harangued the people on the doorsteps:  “Is it the Empire that you want?” exclaimed Schoelcher.  They even went as far as to sing the “Marseillaise.”  People took off their hats as they passed and shouted “Long live the Representatives!” But that was all.

They were thirsty and weary.  In the Rue de Reuilly a man came out of a door with a bottle in his hand, and offered them drink.

Sartin joined them on the way.  In the Rue de Charonne they entered the meeting-place of the Association of Cabinet Makers, hoping to find there the committee of the association in session.  There was no one there.  But nothing discouraged them.

As they reached the Place de la Bastille, Dulac said to Schoelcher, “I will ask permission to leave you for an hour or two, for this reason:  I am alone in Paris with my little daughter, who is seven years old.  For the past week she has had scarlet fever.  Yesterday, when the coup d’etat burst forth, she was at death’s door.  I have no one but this child in the world.  I left her this morning to come with you, and she said to me, ‘Papa, where are you going?’ As I am not killed, I will go and see if she is not dead.”

Two hours afterwards the child was still living, and we were holding a permanent sitting at No. 15, Rue Richelieu, Jules Favre, Carnot, Michel de Bourges, and myself, when Dulac entered, and said to us, “I have come to place myself at your disposal.”

[9] “There was also a misunderstanding respecting the appointed time.  Some made a mistake, and thought it was nine o’clock.  The first arrivals impatiently awaited their colleagues.  They were, as we have said, some twelve or fifteen in number at half-past eight.  ‘Time is being lost,’ exclaimed one of them who had hardly entered; ’let us gird on our sashes; let us show the Representatives to the People, let us join it in raising barricades.’  We shall perhaps save the country, at all events we shall save the honor of our party.  ‘Come, let us to the barricades!’ This advice was immediately and unanimously acclaimed:  one alone, Citizen Baudin, interposed the forcible objection, ’we are not sufficiently numerous to adopt such a resolution.’  But he spiritedly joined in the general enthusiasm, and with a calm conscience, after having reserved the principle, he was not the last to gird on his sash.”—­SCHOELCHER, Histoire des Crimes du 2d Decembre, pp. 130-131.

CHAPTER IV.

THE WORKMEN’S SOCIETIES ASK US FOR THE ORDER TO FIGHT