Note 100 — Chapter VII

Tirard: "My whole preoccupation and that of my colleagues had been to postpone the elections so as to reach the date of the 3rd April"—Enquête sur le 18 Mars, vol. ii. p. 340. Vautrain: "My colleagues and I thus gained eight days more."—Ibid., p. 379. J. Favre: "For eight days we were the only barricade raised up between the insurrection and the Government."—Ibid., p. 385. Desmarets: "I believed it necessary to remain exposed to danger in order to give the Government of Versailles time for arming."—Ibid., p. 412.