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others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap.
Lafayette turned aside his head. Exelmans quitted the pro-
cession.
This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst
of it. From the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Auster-
litz one of those clamors which resemble billows stirred the
multitude. Two prodigious shouts went up: ‘Lamarque to
the Pantheon!— Lafayette to the Town-hall!’ Some young
men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed them-
selves and began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the
bridge of Austerlitz and Lafayette in a hackney-coach along
the Quai Morland.
In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it
was noticed that a German showed himself named Ludwig
Snyder, who died a centenarian afterwards, who had also
been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at Trenton un-
der Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette.
In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank
had been set in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the
right bank the dragoons emerged from the Celestins and
deployed along the Quai Morland. The men who were drag-
ging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner
of the quay and shouted: ‘The dragoons!’ The dragoons
advanced at a walk, in silence, with their pistols in their
holsters, their swords in their scabbards, their guns slung in
their leather sockets, with an air of gloomy expectation.
They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge.
The carriage in which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their
ranks opened and allowed it to pass, and then closed behind

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