He told us that he had just seen, and he repeated, had seen with "his own eyes," in the Rue Popincourt, a regiment marching in silence, and wending its way towards the blind alley of No.

82, that we were surrounded, and that we were about to be attacked.

He begged us to disperse immediately.
"Citizen Representatives," called out Cournet, "I have placed scouts in the blind alley who will fall back and warn us if the regiment penetrates thither.

The door is narrow and will be barricaded in the twinkling of an eye.

We are here, with you, fifty armed and resolute men, and at the first shot we shall be two hundred.