Baze and Leflo, M.de Panat, the only Questor who remained free, having been spared or disdained as a Legitimist, awoke M.Dupin and begged him to summon immediately the Representatives from their own homes.

M.Dupin returned this unprecedented answer, "I do not see any urgency." Almost at the same time as M.Panat, the Representative Jerome Bonaparte had hastened thither.

He had summoned M.Dupin to place himself at the head of the Assembly.

M.Dupin had answered, "I cannot, I am guarded." Jerome Bonaparte burst out laughing.

In fact, no one had deigned to place a sentinel at M.Dupin's door; they knew that it was guarded by his meanness.
It was only later on, towards noon, that they took pity on him.