It was like a _fete-de-nuit_ on the boulevards.

The soldiers laughed and sang, as they threw into the fire the debris of the barricades.

After this, as at Strasbourg and Boulogne, money was distributed among them.

Let us hear what a witness says: 'I saw, at Porte Saint-Denis, a staff-officer give two hundred francs to the chief of a detachment of twenty men, with these words: "The prince ordered me to give you this money, to be distributed among your brave soldiers! the marks of his satisfaction will not be confined to this."-- Each soldier received ten francs.' "On the evening of the battle of Austerlitz, the Emperor said: 'Soldiers, I am content with you.' "Another person adds: 'The soldiers, with cigars in their mouths, twitted the passers-by and jingled the money in their pockets.' Another says: 'The officers broke the rolls of louis d'or _like sticks of chocolate_.' "The sentinels allowed only women to pass; whenever a man made his appearance, they cried: 'Be off!' Tables were spread in the bivouacs, and officers and soldiers drank around them.

The flame of the braziers was reflected on all those merry faces.