Marny answered them with a smile, accompanied by these plain words, "If you appeal to arms, and if I find any Representatives on the barricades, I will have them all shot to the last man." The meeting in the Tenth Arrondissement yielded to force.

President Vitet insisted that they should forcibly arrest him.

A police agent who seized him turned pale and trembled.

In certain circumstances, to lay violent hands upon a man is to lay them upon Right, and those who dare to do so are made to tremble by outraged Law.

The exodus from the Mairie was long and beset with obstructions.