His name is found in the list of the roll-call at the barracks.
A little further on M.de Lesperut passed them.

They cried out to him.
"Lesperut! Lesperut!" "I am with you," answered he.

The soldiers pushed him back.

He seized the butt-ends of the muskets, and forced his way into the column.
In one of the streets through which they went a window was opened.
Suddenly a woman appeared with a child; the child, recognizing its father amongst the prisoners, held out its arms and called to him, the mother wept in the background.
It was at first intended to take the Assembly in a body straight to Mazas, but this was counter-ordered by the Ministry of the Interior.

It was feared that this long walk, in broad daylight, through populous and easily aroused streets, might prove dangerous; the D'Orsay barracks were close at hand.