It is treason! Louis Bonaparte is strangling the Republic.

The people are attacked.

The people must defend themselves." "They will defend themselves." "You promise me that ?" "Yes," they answered.
One of them added, "We swear it." They kept their word.

Barricades were constructed in my street (Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne), in the Rue des Martyrs, in the Cite Rodier, in the Rue Coquenard, and at Notre-Dame de Lorette..