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Updated: April 30, 2025
Curious words; for it is difficult to believe that Delahodde was in the secret of what was to happen on the fatal day of the Fourth. At the head-quarters of the Committee encouraging information was forwarded to us from every side. Testelin, the Representative of Lille, is not only a learned man, but a brave man.
This crowd was reading a bill placarded on a wall. It was the Appeal to Arms signed "Victor Hugo." Testelin asked Gambon, "Have you a pencil?" "Yes," answered Gambon. Testelin took the pencil, went up to the placard, and wrote his name beneath mine, then he gave the pencil to Gambon, who in turn wrote his name beneath that of Testelin.
Upon this the crowd shouted, "Bravo! these are true-hearted men!" "Shout 'Long live the Republic!" cried Testelin. All shouted "Long live the Republic!" "And from above, from the open windows," added Gambon, "women clapped their hands." "The little hands of women applauding are a good sign," said Michel de Bourges.
The two Representatives wandered through the agitated and dark streets, little followed, in no way understood, seeking a ferment of insurgents, and only finding a swarming of the curious. Testelin, nevertheless, having come to the Committee, informed us of the following: At the corner of a street of the Faubourg Saint Antoine Gambon and himself had noticed a crowd. They had gone up to it.
On the morning of the 3d he had reached, shortly after me, the Saint Antoine barricade, where Baudin had just been killed. All was at an end in that direction. Testelin was accompanied by Charles Gambon, another dauntless man.
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