M.Dupin, having learnt that the gendarmes had cleared out the Hall, had come out of his hiding-place.

The Assembly being thrown prostrate, Dupin stood erect.

The law being made prisoner, this man felt himself set free.
The group of Representatives, led by MM.

Canet and Favreau, found him in his study.
There a dialogue ensued.

The Representatives summoned the President to put himself at their head, and to re-enter the Hall, he, the man of the Assembly, with them, the men of the Nation.
M.Dupin refused point-blank, maintained his ground, was very firm, and clung bravely to his nonentity.
"What do you want me to do ?" said he, mingling with his alarmed protests many law maxims and Latin quotations, an instinct of chattering jays, who pour forth all their vocabulary when they are frightened.