Alphonse Karr--The cuirassier--The medal for life saving and the Cross of the Légion d'honneur--Karr's home at Montmartre--_Sous les tilleuls_ and the critics--The taking of Algiers--M. Dupin senior--Why he did not write his Memoirs--Signing of the Ordinances of July--Reasons that prevented my going to Algiers CHAPTER II The third storey of No. 7 in the rue de l'Université--The first results of the Ordinances--The café du Roi--Étienne Arago--François Arago--The Academy--La Bourse--Le Palais-Royal--Madame de Leuven--Journey in search of her husband and son--Protest of the journalists--Names of the signatories CHAPTER III The morning of July 27--Visit to my mother--Paul Foucher--_Amy Robsart_--Armand Carrel--The office of the _Temps_--Baude--The Commissary of Police--The three locksmiths--The office of the _National_--Cadet Gassicourt--Colonel Gourgaud--M. de Rémusat--Physiognomy of the passers-by CHAPTER IV Doctor Thibaut--The Government of Gérard and Mortemart--Étienne Arago and Mazue, the Superintendent of Police--The café Gobillard--Fire at the guard-house in the place de la Bourse--The first barricades--The night CHAPTER V The morning of the 27th--Joubert--Charles Teste--_La Petite Jacobinière_--Chemist Robinet--The arms used in _Sergent Mathieu_--Pillage of an armourer's stores--The three Royal Guards--A tall and fair young man--Oudard's fears CHAPTER VI The aspect of the rue de Richelieu--Charras--L'École polytechnique--The head with the wig--The café of the Porte Saint-Honoré--The tricoloured flag--I become head of a troop--My landlord gives me notice--A gentleman who distributes powder--The captain of the 15th Light Infantry CHAPTER VII The attack on the Hôtel de Ville--Rout--I take refuge at M. Lethière's--The news--My landlord becomes generous--General La Fayette--Taschereau--Béranger--The list of the Provisional Government--Honest mistake of the _Constitutionnel_ 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 CHAPTER IX Aspect of the Louvre--Fight on the Pont des Arts--The dead and wounded--A cannon ball for myself--Madame Guyet-Desfontaines--Return from the Babylone barracks--Charras's cockade--The taking of the Tuileries--A copy of _Christine_--Quadrille danced in the Tuileries court--The men _who made the Revolution of 1830_ BOOK III CHAPTER I