There were in this majority three hundred Representatives of the People.

Louis Napoleon sent a sergeant to drive them away.

The Assembly, having resisted the sergeant, he sent an officer, the temporary commander of the sixth battalion of the Chasseurs de Vincennes.

This officer, young, fair-haired, a scoffer, half laughing, half threatening, pointed with his finger to the stairs filled with bayonets, and defied the Assembly.

"Who is this young spark ?" asked a member of the Right.