As soon as his carriage was seen at a distance, there arose a universal shout of joy.

All the curb-stones, all the barriers, all the windows were crammed with spectators, and, scarcely was the carriage stopped, when people were already on the imperial and even on the wheels to get a nearer view of the divinity.

Scarcely had he entered the house when Sieur Brizard came up with a crown of laurels, which Madame de Villette placed upon the great man's head, but which he immediately took off, though the public urged him to keep it on by clapping of hands and by cheers which resounded from all corners of the house with such a din as never was heard.
"All the women stood up.

I saw at one time that part of the pit which was under the boxes going down on their knees, in despair of getting a sight any other way.

The whole house was darkened with the dust raised by the ebb and flow of the excited multitude.