[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER XIX 22/23
We got in, and as Baudin told me that he would pass the night at Cournet's, I gave him the address of M.do la R----, so that he could send for me if any notice of the movement came from the Faubourg St.Marceau or elsewhere.
But I hoped for nothing more that night, and I was right. About a quarter of an hour after the separation of the Representatives, and after we had left the Rue Popincourt, Jules Favre, Madier de Montajau, de Flotte, and Carnot, to whom we had sent word to the Rue des Moulins, arrived at Cournet's, accompanied by Schoelcher, by Charamaule, by Aubry (du Nord), and by Bastide.
Some Representatives were still remaining at Cournet's.
Several, like Baudin, were going to pass the night there.
They told our colleagues what had been settled respecting my proposition, and of the rendezvous at the Salle Roysin; only it appears that there was some doubt regarding the hour agreed upon, and that Baudin in particular did not exactly remember it, and that our colleagues believed that the rendezvous, which had been fixed for nine o'clock in the morning, was fixed for eight. This alteration in the hour, due to the treachery of memory for which no one can be blamed, prevented the realization of the plan which I had conceived of an Assembly holding its sittings in the Faubourg, and giving battle to Louis Bonaparte, but gave us as a compensation the heroic exploits of the Ste.
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