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tisans: ‘Come here, you!’ He treated them to ten sous’ worth
of wine and said: ‘Have you work?’ ‘No.’ ‘Go to Filspierre,
between the Barriere Charonne and the Barriere Montreuil,
and you will find work.’ At Filspierre’s they found cartridg-
es and arms. Certain well-known leaders were going the
rounds, that is to say, running from one house to another,
to collect their men. At Barthelemy’s, near the Barriere du
Trone, at Capel’s, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers ac-
costed each other with a grave air. They were heard to say:
‘Have you your pistol?’ ‘Under my blouse.’ ‘And you?’ ‘Un-
der my shirt.’ In the Rue Traversiere, in front of the Bland
workshop, and in the yard of the Maison-Brulee, in front
of tool-maker Bernier’s, groups whispered together. Among
them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained
more than a week in one shop, as the masters always dis-
charged him ‘because they were obliged to dispute with him
every day.’ Mavot was killed on the following day at the bar-
ricade of the Rue Menilmontant. Pretot, who was destined
to perish also in the struggle, seconded Mavot, and to the
question: ‘What is your object?’ he replied: ‘Insurrection.’
Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy,
waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for
the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged
almost publicly.
On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain
and sun, General Lamarque’s funeral procession traversed
Paris with official military pomp, somewhat augmented
through precaution. Two battalions, with draped drums
and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with

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