I got into a cab and drove there.

The Hotel was lit up.

On the "place" there were not many persons, but all round it, in the streets, were Mobiles and Bourgeois National Guards, about 20,000 in all.

The Hotel was guarded, I heard, by a Belleville battalion, but I could not get close in to interview them.

This lasted until about two o'clock in the morning, when the battalions closed in, Trochu appeared with his staff, and in some way or other, for it was so dark, nothing could be seen, the new Government was ejected; M.Jules Favre and his colleagues were rescued.