The National Guards of the quarter were hurrying there, and Mobile battalions were marching in the same direction.

I found on my arrival that this had become the headquarters of the Government; that an officer who had come with an order to Picard to go to the Hotel de Ville, signed by Blanqui, had been arrested.

General Tamisier was still a prisoner with the Government.

Soon news arrived that a battalion had got inside the Hotel de Ville and had managed to smuggle Trochu out by a back door.
Off I went to the Louvre.

There Trochu, his uniform considerably deteriorated, was haranguing some battalions of the Mobiles, who were shouting "Vive Trochu!" Other battalions were marching down the Rue Rivoli to the Hotel de Ville.