assisting either to build them or to defend them. Besides the great

exploit at Saint Antoine barricade, where Schoelcher was so admirable,

Esquiros went to the barricade of the Rue de Charonne, De Flotte to

those of the Pantheon and of the Chapelle Saint Denis, Madier de

Montjau to those of Belleville and the Rue Aumaire, Doutre and Pelletier

to that of the Mairie of the Fifth Arrondissement, Brives to that of Rue

Beaubourg, Arnauld de l'Ariège to that of Rue de Petit-Repîsoir, Viguier

to that of the Rue Pagevin, Versigny to that of the Rue Joigneaux;

Dupont de Bussac to that of the Carré Saint Martin; Carlos Forel and

Boysset to that of the Rue Rambuteau. Doutre received a sword-cut on his

head, which cleft his hat; Bourzat had four balls in his overcoat;

Baudin was killed; Gaston Dussoubs was ill and could not come; his

brother, Denis Dussoubs, replaced him. Where? In the tomb.

Baudin fell on the first barricade, Denis Dussoubs on the last.

I was less favored than Bourzat; I only had three balls in my overcoat,

and it is impossible for me to say whence they came. Probably from the

boulevard.

After the battle was lost there was no general helter-skelter, no rout,

no flight. All remained hidden in Paris ready to reappear, Michel in the

Rue d'Alger, myself in the Rue de Navarin. The Committee held yet

another sitting on Saturday, the 6th, at eleven o'clock at night. Jules

Favre, Michel de Bourges, and myself, we came during the night to the

house of a generous and brave woman, Madame Didier. Bastide came there

and said to me, "If you are not killed here, you are going to enter upon

exile. For myself, I am going to remain in Paris. Take me for your

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