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Updated: June 15, 2025
Nevertheless they did not expect an attack before the morning. Dialogues like the following took place amongst them: "I wish I had a truss of straw," said Charpentier; "I have a notion that we shall sleep here to-night." "Will you be able to get to sleep?" asked Jeanty Sarre. "I? Certainly I shall go to sleep." He did go to sleep, in fact, a few moments later.
Their other companion lay a few paces from him, mortally wounded. The soldiers did not scale the grated gateway, but they posted a sentinel before it. Jeanty Sarre heard them going away by the Rue Montmartre. They would doubtless come back. No means of flight. He felt all the doors round his prison successively. One of them at length opened. This appeared to him like a miracle.
They fell back hastily; but one of them, who was a shoemaker of the Faubourg du Temple, was hit, and had remained on the pavement. They went back and brought him away. He had the thumb of the right hand smashed. "Thank God!" said Jeanty Sarre, "they have not killed him." "No," said the poor man, "it is my bread which they have killed."
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