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Updated: May 27, 2025
But as I went up the Rue de la Munitionnaire, I heard at the corner of the college the drum of the sergent-de-ville, Harmantier, and I saw a throng gathered around him. I ran to hear what was going on, and I arrived just as he began reading a proclamation. Harmantier read that, by the senatus-consultus of the 3d, the drawing for the conscription would take place on the 15th.
Unfortunately it could not restore life to three hundred thousand men buried in the snow; and so the people went away very sad. Others came by dozens who had not heard the news read, and from time to time Harmantier came out to read the bulletin. This lasted until night; still the same scene over and over again. I ran from the place; I wanted to know nothing about it.
Then a rush was made toward him, but the soldiers kept off the crowd, and old Harmantier began to read the placard, which he called the twenty-ninth bulletin, and in which the Emperor informed them that during the retreat the horses perished every night by thousands. He said nothing of the men!
She laughed, and as Father Goulden and I listened to hear her plan, she continued: "Just now while I was at the town-hall, Sergeant Harmantier announced that we were to have a grand mass for the repose of the souls of Louis XVI., Pichegru, Moreau, and another one." "Yes," interrupted Father Goulden, "for George Cadoudal, I read it last evening in the gazette."
At length, Harmantier, the sergent-de-ville, came out of the guard-house, and stood at the top of the steps, with another placard like the first; a few soldiers followed him.
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