When interrogated, the Commissary declared that the reports of his agents indicated "dead calm"-- such was his expression--and that assuredly there was no danger to be apprehended for that night.

When the Questors pressed him further, President Dupin, exclaiming "Bah!" left the room.
On that same day, the 1st December, about three o'clock in the afternoon, as General Leflo's father-in-law crossed the boulevard in front of Tortoni's, some one rapidly passed by him and whispered in his ear these significant words, "Eleven o'clock--midnight." This incident excited but little attention at the Questure, and several even laughed at it.

It had become customary with them.

Nevertheless General Leflo would not go to bed until the hour mentioned had passed by, and remained in the Offices of the Questure until nearly one o'clock in the morning.
The shorthand department of the Assembly was done out of doors by four messengers attached to the _Moniteur_, who were employed to carry the copy of the shorthand writers to the printing-office, and to bring back the proof-sheets to the Palace of the Assembly, where M.Hippolyte Prevost corrected them.

M.Hippolyte Prevost was chief of the stenographic staff, and in that capacity had apartments in the Legislative Palace.