The first from the Porte St.Denis, with the number five; the next from the Porte St.Jacques, with the number three; the third from the Porte St.Honore, with the number eight; and the fourth from the Porte Montmartre, with the number four.

Lastly came a messenger, from the Porte Bussy, who announced four.

De Loignac wrote all these down, added them to those who had entered the Porte St.Antoine, and found the total number to be forty-five.
"Good!" said he.

"Now open the gates, and all may enter." The gates were thrown open, and then horses, mules, and carts, men, women, and children, pressed into Paris, at the risk of suffocating each other, and in a quarter of an hour all the crowd had vanished.
Robert Briquet remained until the last.

"I have seen enough," said he: "would it be very advantageous to me to see M.Salcede torn in four pieces?
No, pardieu! Besides, I have renounced politics; I will go and dine.".