twelve o'clock
`` It is too late ! '' was the terrible response from the heart of the barricades , followed by a shower of stones , one of which wounded General Lamoricière on the hand . A third time , in the Rue Rohan , General Gourgaud , who even promised the abdication of the King , met with the same utter defeat , and hastily fled from the fury of the monster now thoroughly roused . At twelve o'clock the rumor sped with lightning rapidity through the streets of Paris that the troops , who had ostensibly been ordered to their quarters , were , in fact , concentrated around the palace . Instantly rose the shout , `` To the Tuileries ! To the Tuileries ! '' and a hundred thousand men from all sections of the city marched toward the Palais Bourbon and the Tuileries !