CHAPTER VIII

Invasion of the Artillery Museum--Armour of François I.--Charles IX.'s arquebuse--La place de l'Odéon--What Charras had been doing--The uniform of the École polytechnique--Millotte--The prison Montaigu--The barracks of l'Estrapade--D'Hostel--A Bonapartist--Riding-master Chopin--Lothon--The general in command