About four
o'clock
That served to inspire the men with still more courage , the triumph of Paris was assured , the resistance would be as unyielding as the attack was vindictive , in the implacable hate , swollen by lies and cruelties , that inflamed the heart of either army . And that day was spent by Maurice in the quarters of the Champ de Mars and the Invalides , firing and falling back slowly from street to street . He had not been able to find his battalion ; he fought in the ranks with comrades who were strangers to him , accompanying them in their march to the left bank without taking heed whither they were going . About four o'clock they had a furious conflict behind a barricade that had been thrown across the Rue de l'Universite , where it comes out on the Esplanade , and it was not until twilight that they abandoned it on learning that Bruat 's division , stealing up along the _ quai _ , had seized the Corps Legislatif . They had a narrow escape from capture , and it was with great difficulty that they managed to reach the Rue de Lille after a long circuit through the Rue Saint-Dominique and the Rue Bellechasse . At the close of that day the army of Versailles occupied a line which , beginning at the Vanves gate , led past the Corps Legislatif , the Palace of the Elysee , St. Augustine 's Church , the Lazare station , and ended at the Asnieres gate . The next day , Tuesday , the 23d , was warm and bright , and a terrible day it was for Maurice .