Military sentinels of all kinds are disarmed while the Marseilles throng, turning its advantages to account, announces to the municipality at two o'clock in the morning that, "allow it or not" it is going to attack the barracks immediately; in fact, cannon are planted, a few shots are fired, a sentinel killed, and the hemmed-in regiment is compelled to evacuate the town, the men without their guns and the officers without their swords.
Their arms are stolen, the people seize the suspected, the street-lamp is hauled down and the noose is made ready.

Cayol, the flower-girl, is hung.

The municipality, with great difficulty, saves one man who is already lifted by the rope two feet from the ground, and obtains for three others "a temporary refuge" in prison.
Henceforth there is no authority at the department headquarters, or rather it has changed hands.

Another Directory, more pliable, is installed in the place of the fugitive Directory.

Of the thirty-six administrators who form the Council only twelve are present at the election.