This Committee of Permanency was composed of four members, who were Carnot, Michel de Bourges, Jules Favre, and myself.

De Flotte and Madier de Montjau were specially delegated, De Flotte for the left bank of the river and the district of the schools, Madier for the Boulevards and the outskirts.
These preliminary operations being terminated, Lafon took aside Michel de Bourges and myself, and told us that the ex-Constituent Proudhon had inquired for one of us two, that he had remained downstairs nearly a quarter of an hour, and that he had gone away, saying that he would wait for us in the Place de la Bastille.
Proudhon, who was at that time undergoing a term of three years' imprisonment at St.Pelagie for an offence against Louis Bonaparte, was granted leave of absence from tine to time.

Chance willed it that one of these liberty days had fallen on the 2d of December.
This is an incident which one cannot help noting.

On the 2d of December Proudhon was a prisoner by virtue of a lawful sentence, and at the same moment at which they illegally imprisoned the inviolable Representatives, Proudhon, whom they could have legitimately detained, was allowed to go out.

Proudhon had profited by his liberty to come and find us.
I knew Proudhon from having seen him at the Conciergerie, where my two sons were shut up, and my two illustrious friends, Auguste Vacquerie and Paul Meurice, and those gallant writers, Louis Jourdan, Erdan, and Suchet.