CHAPTER XVII.
THE REBOUND OF THE 24TH JUNE, 1848, ON THE 2D DECEMBER, 1851 On Sunday, 26th June, 1848, that four days' combat, that gigantic combat so formidable and so heroic on both sides, still continued, but the insurrection had been overcome nearly everywhere, and was restricted to the Faubourg St.Antoine.Four men who had been amongst the most dauntless defenders of the barricades of the Rue Pont-aux-Choux, of the Rue St.Claude, and of the Rue St.Louis in the Marais, escaped after the barricades had been taken, and found safe refuge in a house, No.

12, Rue St.Anastase.They were concealed in an attic.

The National Guards and the Mobile Guards were hunting for them, in order to shoot them.

I was told of this.

I was one of the sixty Representatives sent by the Constituent Assembly into the middle of the conflict, charged with the task of everywhere preceding the attacking column, of carrying, even at the peril of their lives, words of peace to the barricades, to prevent the shedding of blood, and to stop the civil war.