M.de Tocqueville added, "I said to myself every night, 'I lie down to sleep a Minister; what if I should awake a prisoner ?'" Some of those men who were termed "men of order," muttered while signing the degree of deposition, "Beware of the Red Republic!" and seemed to entertain an equal fear of failure and of success.

M.de Vatimesnil pressed the hands of the men of the Left, and thanked them for their presence.

"You make us popular," said he.

And Antony Thouret answered him, "I know neither Right nor Left to-day; I only see the Assembly." The younger of the two shorthand writers handed their written sheets to the Representatives who had spoken, and, asked them to revise them at once, saying, "We shall not have the time to read them over." Some Representatives went down into the street, and showed the people copies of the decree of deposition, signed by the members of the "bureau." One of the populace took one of these copies, and cried out, "Citizens! the ink is still quite wet! Long live the Republic!" The Deputy-Mayor stood at the door of the Hall; the staircase was crowded with National Guards and spectators.

In the Assembly several had penetrated into the Hall, and amongst them the ex-Constituent Beslay, a man of uncommon courage.