five o'clock in the afternoon
Nobody could pacify us , we had fallen below contempt , we were a conquered people . For thousands of years it would be said , that Paris had been taken by the Prussians and the English . It was an everlasting disgrace , but the shame did not rest on us . The battalion left Vaugirard at five o'clock in the afternoon to go to Montrouge . When we saw that the movement toward the Loire had commenced , each one said , `` What are we then ? Are we subjects to the Prussians ? because they want to see us on the other side of the Loire , are we forced to gratify them ?