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Updated: June 15, 2025
I had hoped at one moment that they would attack it while I was there. The bugle had approached, and then had gone away again. Jeanty Sarre tells me 'it will be for this evening. "His intention is to extinguish the gas in the Rue du Petit-Carreau and all the adjoining streets, and to leave only one jet lighted in the Rue du Cadran.
These men had come there that morning free, proud to fight, and joyous to die. At midnight all was at an end. The night wagons carried away on the next day nine corpses to the hospital cemetery, and thirty-seven to Montmartre. Jeanty Sarre escaped by a miracle, as well as Charpentier, and a third whose name we have not been able to ascertain.
Jeanty Sarre showed him how to load a gun. "They take their meals at a wine-seller's at the corner, and they warm themselves there. It is very cold. The wine-seller says, 'Those who are hungry, go and eat. A combatant asked him, 'Who pays? 'Death, was the answer. And in truth some hours afterwards he had received seventeen bayonet thrusts.
They climbed the grated gateway of the Passage Verdeau as Jeanty Sarre and Charpentier had scaled the Passage du Saumon, had jumped over, and had fled down the Passage. But the other grated gateway was closed, and like Jeanty Sarre and Charpentier they had no time to climb it. Besides, they heard the soldiers corning on both sides.
Chance takes the predestined by the hand, and leads them straight to their goal through the thick darkness. At the moment when he entered the barricade they cried out to him, "Who goes there?" He answered, "The Republic!" They saw Jeanty Sarre shake him by the hand. They asked Jeanty Sarre, "Who is he?" Jeanty Sarre answered, "It is some one." And he added, "We were only sixty a short time since.
Seven or eight combatants whose bodies reached above the barricade, which had been made hastily and was too low were hit. Three were killed on the spot. One fell wounded by a ball in his stomach, between Jeanty Sarre and Charpentier. He shrieked out with pain. "Quick, to the ambulance:" said Jeanty Sarre. "Where?" "In the Rue du Cadran."
We are a hundred now." All pressed round the new-comer. Jeanty Sarre offered him the command. "No," said he, "I do not understand the tactics of barricade fighting. I should be a bad chief, but I am a good soldier. Give me a gun." They seated themselves on the paving-stones. They exchanged their experiences of what had been done. Denis described to them the fighting on the Faubourg Saint Martin.
The soldier does not like isolated action; in war the feeling of elbow to elbow constitutes half the bravery. Jeanty Sarre has a reactionary uncle with whom he is not on good terms, and who lives close by at No. 1, Rue du Petit-Carreau. 'What a fright we shall give him presently! said Jeanty Sarre to me, laughing. This morning Jeanty Sarre has inspected the Montorgueil barricade.
He presented his first lieutenant to me, Charpentier, a man of thirty-six, lettered and scientific. Charpentier busies himself with experiments with the object of substituting gas for coal and wood in the firing of china, and he asks permission to read a tragedy to me 'one of these days. I said to him, 'We shall make one. "Jeanty Sarre is grumbling at Charpentier; the ammunition is failing.
Jeanty Sarre and Charpentier picked up the wounded man, the one by the feet, the other by the head, and carried him to the du Cadran through the passage in the barricade. During all this time there was continued file firing.
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