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 képi. He galloped quickly off. At one o'clock

the regiments were summoned to vote on the coup d'état. 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 Valérien. 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. Honoré. Moreover, the

conflict reveals itself. They sound the tocsin at the Chapelle Bréa. One

barricade overturned sets twenty barricades on their feet. There is the

barricade of the Schools in the Rue St. André des Arts, the barricade of

the Rue du Temple, the barricade of the Carrefour Phélippeaux defended by

twenty young men who have all been killed; they are reconstructing it;

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