Goujet was very serious as they walked back up the Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere.

He was interested in politics and believed in the Republic.

But he had never fired a gun because the common people were getting tired of fighting battles for the middle classes who always seemed to get the benefit of them.
As they reached the top of the slope of the Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere, Goujet turned to look back at Paris and the mobs.

After all, some day people would be sorry that they just stood by and did nothing.

Coupeau laughed at this, saying you would be pretty stupid to risk your neck just to preserve the twenty-five francs a day for the lazybones in the Legislative Assembly.