At three o'clock General Trochu with his staff rode along inside the line, and then withdrew.

General Tamisier then made a speech, which of course no one could hear.

Shortly afterwards there was a cry of "Voila Flourens--Voila nos amis," and an ouvrier battalion with its band playing the Marseillaise marched by.

They did not halt, notwithstanding the entreaties of the manifesters, for they were bound, their officers explained, on a sacred mission, to deposit a crown before the statue of Strasburg.

When I left the Place the crowd was, I think, increasing, and as I drove along the Rue Rivoli I met several bourgeois battalions marching towards the Hotel de Ville.