aroused Belleville. The troops, growing more numerous every moment,

took possession of all the strategical points of Paris.

At one o'clock, a young man was brought to us by the legal adviser of

the Workmen's Societies, the ex-Constituent Leblond, at whose house the

Committee had deliberated that morning. We were sitting in permanence,

Carnot, Jules Favre, Michel de Bourges, and myself. This young man, who

had an earnest mode of speaking and an intelligent countenance, was

named King. He had been sent to us by the Committee of the Workmen's

Society, from whom he was delegated. "The Workmen's Societies," he said

to us, "place themselves at the disposal of the Committee of Legal

Insurrection appointed by the Left. They can throw into the struggle

five or six thousand resolute men. They will manufacture powder; as for

guns, they will be found." The Workmen's Society requested from us an

order to fight signed by us. Jules Favre took a pen and wrote,--"The

undersigned Representatives authorize Citizen King and his friends to

defend with them, and with arms in their hands, Universal Suffrage, the

Republic, the Laws." He dated it, and we all four signed it. "That is

enough," said the delegate to us, "you will hear of us."

Two hours afterwards it was reported to us that the conflict had begun.

They were fighting in the Rue Aumaire.

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10] A typographical error--it should read "Article LXVIII." On the

subject of this placard the author of this book received the following

letter. It does honor to those who wrote it:--

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