nine o'clock
And the insurrectionists parted . As the day closed , barricades rose in the Quartier du Temple , and there was fighting between the people and the Municipal Guard . But the National Guard came to the rescue , and the latter surrendered . At nine o'clock Paris was illuminated . White , red , blue -- yellow , orange , green -- these were the tri-colors of the lamps that poured their rich effulgence from every window on the gloomy scene without . The streets were thronged and the cafés crowded ; men of all nations and Parisians of all classes were in the streets ; the rattle of musketry had ceased ; the troops were in their barracks and the people at their homes . At the corner of the Boulevard and the Rue des Capucines , Flocon and Louis Blanc met .