We learned the next day that the packages had been seized by the police.

Cournet, an ex-Republican naval officer who was present, began to speak.

We shall see presently what sort of a man Cournet was, and of what an energetic and determined nature he was composed.

He represented to us that as we had been there nearly two hours the police would certainly end by being informed of our whereabouts, that the members of the Left had an imperative duty--to keep themselves at all costs at the head of the People, that the necessity itself of their situation imposed upon them the precaution of frequently changing their place of retreat, and he ended by offering us, for our deliberation, his house and his workshops, No.

82, Rue Popincourt, at the bottom of a blind alley, and also in the neighborhood of the Faubourg St.Antoine.
This offer was accepted.