A hat was sent round, and each threw into it what money he had about him.

They collected in this manner a few hundred francs.
Xavier Durrieu, whose fiery courage never flagged for a single moment, reiterated that he would undertake the printing, and promised that by eight o'clock that evening there should be 40,000 copies of the Proclamation.

Time pressed.

They separated, after fixing as a rendezvous the premises of the Society of Cabinet-makers in the Rue de Charonne, at eight o'clock in the evening, so as to allow time for the situation to reveal itself.

As we went out and crossed the Rue Beautreillis I saw Pierre Leroux coming up to me.