The people at the neighbouring windows laughed and applauded him.

An instant afterwards the scaffolding fell all at once, and with a loud noise; this completed the barricade.
"While this redoubt was being completed, a score or more of men entered the Gymnase Theatre by the stage-door, and came out a few seconds later with some muskets and a drum which they had found in the wardrobe, and which were a part of what, in theatrical language, are termed 'the properties,' One of the men took the drum and began beating to arms.
The others, with the overturned vespasian columns, carriages thrown on their sides, blinds and shutters torn from their hinges, and old scenery, constructed, opposite the guard-house of Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle, a small barricade as a sort of advanced post, or rather a lunette, which commanded Boulevards Poissonniere and Montmartre as well as Rue Hauteville.

The troops had evacuated the guard-house in the morning.

They took the flag belonging to it and planted it on the barricade.

It was this same flag which was afterwards declared by the newspapers of the _coup d'etat_ to have been a 'red flag.' "Some fifteen men took up their position at this advanced post.