A young Republican Representative rose, and offered him his mattress.

They pressed on each offers of overcoats, cloaks, and coverlets.
"Reconciliation," said Chamiot, while offering the half of his mattress to the Duc de Luynes.

The Duc de Luynes, who had 80,000 francs a year, smiled, and replied to Chamiot, "You are St.Martin, and I am the beggar." M.Paillet, the well-known barrister, who belonged to the "Third Estate," used to say, "I passed the night on a Bonapartist straw mattress, wrapped in a burnouse of the Mountain, my feet in a Democratic and Socialist sheepskin, and my head in a Legitimist cotton nightcap." The Representatives, although prisoners in the barracks, could stroll about freely.

They were allowed to go down into the courtyard.

M.Cordier (of Calvados) came upstairs again, saying, "I have just spoken to the soldiers.