If the soldiers fired upon their legislators, they should disperse throughout Paris, cry "To Arms," and resort to barricades.

Resistance should be begun constitutionally, and if that failed, should be continued revolutionarily.

There was no time to be lost.
"High treason," said I, "should be seized red-handed, is a great mistake to suffer such an outrage to be accepted by the hours as they elapse.
Each minute which passes is an accomplice, and endorses the crime.
Beware of that calamity called an 'Accomplished fact.' To arms!" Many warmly supported this advice, among others Edgar Quinet, Pelletier, and Doutre.
Michel de Bourges seriously objected.

My instinct was to begin at once, his advice was to wait and see.

According to him there was danger in hastening the catastrophe.