Goujet vigorously defended himself against the charge.
But this didn't prevent the two workingmen from becoming best of friends.

They went off to work together in the mornings and sometimes had a glass of beer together on the way home.
It eventually came about that Golden Mouth could render a service to Young Cassis, one of those favors that is remembered forever.
It was the second of December.

The zinc-worker decided, just for the fun of it, to go into the city and watch the rioting.

He didn't really care about the Republic, or Napoleon or anything like that, but he liked the smell of gunpowder and the sound of the rifles firing.

He would have been arrested as a rioter if the blacksmith hadn't turned up at the barricade at just that moment and helped him escape.