“Leon Foucher refuses to be in it; Montalember hesitates; Baroche accepts.

“Falloux despises Dupin.

“The first shots were fired at the Record Office.  In the Markets in the Rue Rambuteau, in the Rue Beaubourg I heard firing.

“Fleury, the aide-de-camp, ventured to pass down the Rue Montmartre.  A musket ball pierced his kepi.  He galloped quickly off.  At one o’clock the regiments were summoned to vote on the coup d’etat.  All gave their adhesion.  The students of law and medicine assembled together at the Ecole de Droit to protest.  The Municipal Guards dispersed them.  There were a great many arrests.  This evening, patrols are everywhere.  Sometimes an entire regiment forms a patrol.

“Representative Hespel, who is six feet high, was not able to find a cell long enough for him at Mazas, and he has been obliged to remain in the porter’s lodge, where he is carefully watched.

“Mesdames Odilon Barrot and de Tocqueville do not know where their husbands are.  They go from Mazas to Mont Valerien.  The jailers are dumb.  It is the 19th Light Infantry which attacked the barricade when Baudin was killed.  Fifty men of the Gendarmerie Mobile have carried at the double the barricade of the Oratoire in the Rue St. Honore.  Moreover, the conflict reveals itself.  They sound the tocsin at the Chapelle Brea.  One barricade overturned sets twenty barricades on their feet.  There is the barricade of the Schools in the Rue St. Andre des Arts, the barricade of the Rue du Temple, the barricade of the Carrefour Phelippeaux defended by twenty young men who have all been killed; they are reconstructing it; the barricade of the Rue de Bretagne, which at this moment Courtigis is bombarding.  There is the barricade of the Invalides, the barricade of the Barriere des Martyres, the barricade of the Chapelle St. Denis.  The councils of war are sitting in permanence, and order all prisoners to be shot.  The 30th of the Line have shot a woman.  Oil upon fire.

“The colonel of the 49th of the Line has resigned.  Louis Bonaparte has appointed in his place Lieutenant Colonel Negrier.  M. Brun, Officer of the Police of the Assembly, was arrested at the same time as the Questors.

“It is said that fifty members of the majority have signed a protest at M. Odilon Barrot’s house.

“This evening there is an increasing uneasiness at the Elysee.  Incendiarism is feared.  Two battalions of engineer-sappers have reinforced the Fire Brigade.  Maupas has placed guards over the gasometers.

“Here are the military talons by which Paris has been grasped:—­Bivouacs at all the strategical points.  At the Pont Neuf and the Quai aux Fleurs, the Municipal Guards; at the Place de la Bastille twelve pieces of cannon, three mortars, lighted matches; at the corner of the Faubourg the six-storied houses are occupied by soldiers from top to bottom; the Marulaz brigade at the Hotel de Ville; the Sauboul brigade