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assembly."''^ It is also said that Chabot closed his address with, 

 " My children, the national assembly awaits you tomorrow, with- 

 out fail, with open arms."*'" 



This meeting was also attended by Alexandre, commandant of 

 the battalion Saint-Marcel. It was here according to his own 

 statement that he received his summons from Petion and the 

 administrators of police to meet with them at the mayoralty at 

 nine o'clock. lie told the assembly of his summons and asked 

 them not to dismiss their meeting until his return. He came 

 back, he claimed, at one o'clock and gave an account of what had 

 passed at the mayoralty. He also learned that in his absence 

 the section had decided to march on the morrow and he was 

 given a letter by the president of the section asking him to go to 

 the meeting place on the Boulevard de I'Hopital at eight o'clock 

 in the morning. During the day he had received a letter from 

 the president of the section of the Gobelins asking him to join the 

 citizens on the march, because his presence would help to maintain 

 order in so great a crowd of people."^ We have no record of 

 Santerre's attendance at this meeting, though he must have been 

 there, being the first citizen of the faubourg. There is very little 

 evidence of Santerre's activities in the preparations for this up- 

 rising, but there is no doubt whatever of his leadership on the 

 day of the uprising. According to the testimony of three other 

 commandants he had sent invitations by letter or by deputation to 

 them, asking them to march with the battalion Enfants-Trouvees 

 on the 20th and had invited clubs in their district, asking their 

 cooperation. Newspapers and police reports also show him the 

 prime mover."^ 



Other sections besides the Quinze-Vingts sat all night, among 



" " Proces-verbal de la seance du 19 juin de la section des Quinze- 

 Vingts," in Journal des debuts et decrets, No. 273, p. 359-60. 



** " Declaration de Thurot, volontaire grenadier de bataillon du petit 

 Saint-Antoine, June 24, 1792;" Roederer, Chronique de cinqnante jours, 

 19. Thurot says he learned this from a man who had attended the 

 meeting. Roederer does not state his authority. 



"" " Rapport d'Alexandre," Ternaux, I, 407. 



" " Rapport de ce qui s'est passe dans le bataillon du Val-de-Grace " ; 

 " Section de Montreuil, Proces-verbal de la protestation de MM. Bonneau 



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