eight o'clock
However , good news arrives . All the prisons where the proscribed had been confined open their doors and disgorge their prey . Augustin Robespierre , coming from La Force , is the first to enter the Hôtel de Ville and is welcomed with acclamation . At eight o'clock it is announced that Maximilien , after a protracted resistance , is on his way to the Commune . He is eagerly expected ; he is coming ; he is here ; a roar of triumph shakes the vault of the old Municipal Palace . He enters , supported by twenty arms . It is he , the little man there , slim , spruce , in blue coat and yellow breeches .