midnight
On the Boulevard des Italiens appeared three regiments of the Line , a battalion of National Guards , a regiment of cuirassiers , and three field-pieces , with their caissons of ammunition . The horses were unharnessed by the people , the caissons opened , the ammunition distributed and the guns dragged off . The troops , guards and cuirassiers fraternized . Again it was midnight . Again the chiefs of the revolution of '48 assembled in conclave . The second of the Three Days had passed , but the streets of Paris were all alive with excitement . Every leader of the reform was there -- Ledru Rollin and Flocon excited and fiery , Louis Blanc exhausted and agitated , Albert stern and collected , Lamartine pale and troubled , Marrast sanguine and confident -- all of them more or less disturbed but M. Dantès .