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red trousers, accompanied him and protected him. He was doubtless a
soldier who had lately left the service.
The time fixed on the preceding evening for the general rendezvous was
from nine to ten in the morning. This hour had been chosen so that there
should be time to give notice to all the members of the Left; it was
expedient to wait until the Representatives should arrive, so that the
group should the more resemble an Assembly, and that its manifestation
should have more authority on the Faubourg.
Several of the Representatives who had already arrived had no sash of
office. Some were made hastily in a neighboring house with strips of
red, white, and blue calico, and were brought to them. Baudin and De
Flotte were amongst those who girded on these improvised sashes.
Meanwhile it was not yet nine o'clock, when impatience already began to
be manifested around them.[9]
Many shared this glorious impatience.
Baudin wished to wait.
"Do not anticipate the hour," said he; "let us allow our colleagues time
to arrive."
But they murmured round Baudin, "No, begin, give the signal, go outside.
The Faubourg only waits to see your sashes to rise. You are few in
number, but they know that your friends will rejoin you. That is
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