one o’clock precisely
And , in truth , what could be more admirable and worthy of applause than those processions , which had at their head such men as Murat , Moreau , Junot , Duroc , Augereau , and Masséna ? A grand review had been ordered to take place that same day in the square of the Carrousel . Madame Bonaparte was to be present -- not , to be sure , in the balcony of the clock-tower , that being evidently too royal , but at the window of Lebrun 's apartment in the Pavilion of Flora . Bonaparte started at one o'clock precisely from the Luxembourg , escorted by three thousand picked men , among them the splendid regiment of the Guides , created three years earlier as a bodyguard to Bonaparte during the Italian campaign , in consequence of a great danger he had escaped on one occasion . He was resting in a small château , after the exhaustion attendant upon the passage of the Mincio , and was preparing to take a bath , when a retreating Austrian detachment , losing its way , invaded the château , which had no other guard than the sentries . Bonaparte had barely time to escape in his shirt . A curious difficulty , which deserves to be recorded , arose on the morning of this removal , which took place the 30th Pluviose , year VIII .