Guinard was notable for his warm-hearted, loyal characteristics; he would weep like a child when he heard of a fine deed or great misery. A man of marvellous despatch, you could have said of him, as Kléber did of Scheswardin. "Go there and get killed and so save the army!" I am not even sure he would have considered it necessary to answer: "Yes, general"; he would have said nothing, but he would have gone and got killed. His life, moreover, was one long sacrifice to his convictions; he gave up to them all he held most dear--liberty, his fortune and health. From the single sentence we have quoted of Thomas, when he was accosted by M. Thiers on 30 July, my readers can judge of his mind and character. Bastide and he were in partnership, and possessed a woodyard. He was stout-hearted and upright, and had a clever head for business. Unaided, alone, and simply by his wonderful and honest industry, he kept the _National_ afloat when it was on the verge of shipwreck after the death of Carrel, from the year 1836 until 1848, when the long struggle bore successful fruit for everybody except himself. But now let us pass on from the artillerymen to the composition of their batteries. Each battery was dubbed by a name derived from a special characteristic. Thus the first was called _The Aristocrat._ Its ranks contained, as we already know, M. le Duc d'Orléans, then MM. de Tracy, Jal, Paravey (who was afterwards a councillor of state), Étienne Arago, Schoelcher, Loëve-Weymars, Alexandre Basset and Duvert. The second was called _The Republican._ We are acquainted with its two captains, Guinard and Cavaignac; the principal artillerymen were--Guiaud, Gervais, Blaize, Darcet fils and Ferdinand Flocon. The third was called _La Puritaine_, and it was thus named after its captain, Bastide. Bastide, who was on the staff of the _National_, was the champion of the religious questions, which this newspaper had a tendency to attack after the manner of the _Constitutionnel._ Thence originated the report of his absolute submission to the practices of religion. The _Puritaine_ counted amongst its gunners--Carral, Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, Grégoire, Séchan. The fourth was called _La Meurtrière_, on account of the large number of doctors it contained. We have mentioned its captains; these are the names of the chief "murderers"--Bixio, medical student; Doctors Trélat, Laussedat, Jules Guyot, Montègre, Jourdan, Houet and Raspail, who was half a doctor. The others were Prosper Mérimée, Lacave-Laplagne, who has since become Minister of Finance; Ravoisié, Baltard, the architect; Desvaux, student, afterwards a lieutenant in the July revolution, and, later still, one of the bravest and most brilliant officers in the whole army; lastly, Bocage and myself. Of course, there were many others in these batteries, for the artillery, I believe, numbered eight hundred men, but we are here only mentioning those whose names survived.