[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER XIV 8/23
Antony Thouret attempted to undeceive the soldiers.
An officer cried out to him, "It is one of your party who made the proposal. It is Lamennais!" In about an hour and a half there were ushered into these rooms MM. Vallette, Bixio, and Victor Lefranc, who had come to join their colleagues and constitute themselves prisoners. Night came.
They were hungry.
Several had not eaten since the morning.
M. Howyn de Tranchere, a man of considerable kindness and devotion, who had acted as porter at the Mairie, acted as forager at the barracks.
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