They made their coffee in the saucepans.

They had lighted enormous fires in the courtyard; the flames, fanned by the wind, at times reached the walls of the Chamber.

A superior official of the Questure, an officer of the National Guard, Ramond de la Croisette, ventured to say to them, "You will set the Palace on fire;" whereupon a soldier struck him a blow with his fist.
Four of the pieces taken from the Cour de Canons were ranged in battery order against the Assembly; two on the Place de Bourgogne were pointed towards the grating, and two on the Pont de la Concorde were pointed towards the grand staircase.
As side-note to this instructive tale let us mention a curious fact.

The 42d Regiment of the line was the same which had arrested Louis Bonaparte at Boulogne.

In 1840 this regiment lent its aid to the law against the conspirator.