I have come from thence.

The Place de la Revolution, the Quays, the Tuileries, the boulevards, are crowded with troops.

The soldiers have their knapsacks.

The batteries are harnessed.

If fighting takes place it will be desperate work." I answered him, "There will be fighting." And I added, laughing, "You have proved that the colonels write like poets; now it is the turn of the poets to fight like colonels." I entered my wife's room; she knew nothing, and was quietly reading her paper in bed.
I had taken about me five hundred francs in gold.