"These worthy people are beginning to get together a little capital, they do not wish to compromise it, they are afraid of us.

They say, '_coups d'etat_ are nothing to us, we shall leave them alone!'" "That does not surprise me," answered I, "a society is shopkeeper." "Where are we going ?" asked Jules Favre.
Lafon lived two steps from there, at No.

2, Quai Jemmapes.

He offered us the use of his rooms.

We accepted, and took the necessary measures to inform the members of the Left that we had gone there.
A few minutes afterwards we were installed in Lafon's rooms, on the fourth floor of an old and lofty house.