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The officer answered by a gesture of despair,--
"
What would you have us do?"
The two companies replied to the shot by a general volley, and rushed to
the assault of the barricade, leaving behind them the seven
Representatives astounded at being still alive.
The barricade replied by a volley, but it could not hold out. It was
carried.
Baudin was killed.
He had remained standing in his position on the omnibus. Three balls
reached him. One struck him in the right eye and penetrated into the
brain. He fell. He never regained consciousness. Half-an-hour afterwards
he was dead. His body was taken to the Ste. Marguerite Hospital.
Bourzat, who was close to Baudin, with Aubry (du Nord), had his coat
pierced by a ball.
We must again remark a curious incident,--the soldiers made no prisoner
on this barricade. Those who defended it dispersed through the streets
of the Faubourg, or took refuge in the neighboring houses. Representative
Maigne, pushed by some affrighted women behind a door, was shut in with
one of the soldiers who had just taken the barricade. A moment afterwards
the soldier and the Representative went out together. The Representatives
could freely leave this first field of battle.
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