three o'clock
`` The news ! '' shouted the student and the first workman . `` The railing of the Church of the Assumption has been torn away by the people to supply arms ; two women of the people have been crushed by a charge of the Municipal Guard ; the shop of Lepage , the armorer , in the Rue Richelieu , has been entered by means of the pole of an omnibus used as a battering ram ; and barricades rise on the Rue St. Honoré . '' At three o'clock a column of the people dashed down the boulevards , smashing lamps and breaking shop windows . In the Rue St. Honoré and the Rue de Rivoli an omnibus and two carriages were seized to aid in erecting a barricade . A guard-house in the Champs-Elysées was burned . The troops at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were increased .