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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER XVI
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33, Rue de la Cerisaie." All left; one after another, and in different directions.

I begged Charamaule to go to my house and wait for me there, and I walked out with Noel Parfait and Lafon.
We reached the then still uninhabited district which skirts the ramparts.
As we came to the corner of the Rue Pigalle, we saw at a hundred paces from us, in the deserted streets which cross it, soldiers gliding all along the houses, bending their steps towards the Rue Blanche.
At three o'clock the members of the Left rejoined each other in the Rue de la Cerisaie.

But the alarm had been given, and the inhabitants of these lonely streets stationed themselves at the windows to see the Representatives pass.

The place of meeting, situated and hemmed in at the bottom of a back yard, was badly chosen in the event of being surrounded: all these disadvantages were at once perceived, and the meeting only lasted a few seconds.

It was presided over by Joly; Xavier Durrieu and Jules Gouache, who were editors of the _Revolution_, also took part, as well as several Italian exiles, amongst others Colonel Carini and Montanelli, ex-Minister of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.


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