They will be in civilians' clothes not to excite suspicion, but armed to the teeth.
Twelve mounted Chasseurs, with muskets, pistols, and sabres, will escort the coach, but at some distance behind it, so as to arrive during the fray.

The first pistol fired will be the signal for putting their horses to a gallop and falling upon us.
Now my advice is that, in spite of these precautions, in fact because of these precautions, the attack should be made at the place agreed upon, namely the Maison-Blanche.

If that is also the opinion of the comrades, let me know it.

I will myself take the coach, as postilion, from Macon to Belleville.

I will undertake to settle the colonel, and one of you must be responsible for Fouche's agent.
As for M.Roland de Montrevel, no harm will befall him, for I have a means, known to me alone and by me invented, by which he can be prevented from leaving the coach.
The precise day and hour at which the mail to Chambery will pass the Maison-Blanche is Saturday at six in the evening.