six o’clock in the morning
There was no Brutus there to plunge the dagger into the breast of the new Cassar . His was the victory , the throne , the crown ; and all France was in joyous excitement at this new triumph , that the pope himself should come from Rome to Paris so as to place the crown on the head of an emperor by the grace of the people , and to make of the elect of the people an elect of God . The day had scarcely begun to dawn when all the streets of Paris through which the imperial as well as the papal procession had to move toward Notre Dame were filled with wave-like masses of human beings , who soon occupied not only the streets but all the windows and all the roofs of the houses . Those who were fortunate enough to be provided with cards of admission into Notre Dame , went at six o'clock in the morning to the cathedral , for whose adorning during the last fourteen days more than a thousand workmen had been busy , and who had not yet quite finished their work , retiring only when the approach of the pope and of his suite was announced . In the interior of the Tuileries began from the commencement of the day , on three different sides , a lively movement . Here , in the apartments which the pope occupied , gathered together the cardinals , the clergy , and all the church dignitaries who in the pope 's suite were to proceed to Notre Dame . There , in the apartments of the emperor , a host of courtiers and officers waited from early dawn for the moment when the toilet of the emperor should be completed , and he should go to the great throne-room , where the empress and the imperial family would await him .