six o’clock
`` In your character of Spartan you are a rigid observer of the laws , are you not ? Well , here is a decree issued by the Council of Five Hundred last night , which confers upon me the immediate command of the troops in Paris . So I was right , '' he added , `` when I told you that the soldiers you met were mine , inasmuch as they are under my orders . '' And he placed in Bernadotte 's hands the copy of the decree which had been sent to him at six o'clock that morning . Bernadotte read it through from the first line to the last . `` To this , '' said he , `` I have nothing to object . Secure the safety of the National Legislature , and all good citizens will be with you . ''