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coming from various directions and applauded by the citizens. 

 The administrators of poHce then entered a cafe and had break- 

 fast.«* 



In the same faubourg the committee of the neighboring section 

 Montreuil was in session this morning concerting with the police 

 in an attempt to maintain order. A deputation from the section 

 Quinze-Vingts composed of an officer, some soldiers, and some 

 citizens, came in the name of Santerre to invite Bonneau and 

 Savin, commandants of the battalion Sainte-Marguerite to march 

 with their battalion, following that of the Enfants-Trouvees. 

 Bonneau answered them with Petion's letter which stated the 

 decree of the directory and which appealed to the patriotism of 

 the chiefs as a guarantee that the law would not be violated. The 

 deputation answered that the battalion Enfants-Trouvees had 

 received the same order but represented that it had been revoked. 

 Bonneau did not give credence to this report, but when a great 

 number of citizens and of national guards manifested a desire 

 to march with their friends of the Quinze-Vingts, he yielded be- 

 cause he wished to avoid the evils which would follow a deter- 

 mined resistance. However, he and Savin, his second in com- 

 mand, entered a formal protest to the committee to the efifect that 

 they had not violated explicit orders, but had acted by constraint.®'^ 



In the faubourg Saint-Marcel even more violent scenes were 

 taking place at the same hour and in more than one part of the 

 faubourg. According to instructions received during the night 

 from the chief of their legion and the letter of Petion received 

 at seven thirty, Saint-Prix and his second in command, Leclerc, 

 arrived early at the headquarters of their battalion, Val-de- 

 Grace. They found it surrounded by a crowd of armed men who 

 wished to force the volunteers to go with them. The command- 

 ants recalled the law and showed the crowd the orders which they 

 had received but protestations, efforts and entreaties were useless. 



" " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent." These men have been criticized 

 by some writers for stopping to eat breakfast. (Ternaux I, 155-56.) But 

 we have seen them on duty all night long so can understand their need. 



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

 neau et Savin." 



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