the hour of four o'clock in the
afternoon of Thursday
When the people broke into his hôtel , they found only his daughter , and retired . The other members of the Ministry are said to have leaped from a low window of the Tuileries , and to have escaped at the moment of the King 's abdication . M. de Cormenin was appointed Conseilleur d'État and M. Achille Marrast Procureur-General to the Court of Appeals in Paris , in place of the refugees . Such were some of the acts of the seven men constituting the Provisional Government of the French Republic , during their first extraordinary session of sixty-four hours -- from the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday after the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies to the hour of four o'clock in the morning of Sunday , the 27th of February , when the people of Paris consented to retire to their homes . But during all of this period , night and day without intermission , every moment was the Hôtel de Ville surrounded by tumultuous masses infuriated by suspicion , apprehension and distrust . For two whole days and two whole nights armed men incessantly inundated the square , the courts and halls of the Hôtel de Ville . They insisted on giving to the Republic the character , the attitude and the emblems of the first Revolution -- they insisted on a Republic violent , sweeping , dictatorial and terrorist , in language , in gesture and in color , in place of that determined on , moderate , pacific , legal , unanimous and constitutional .