two o'clock
The area was clear . Cavalry patrolled the boulevards . Infantry , bearing , besides their usual arms , implements for demolishing barricades -- axes , adzes and hatchets -- each soldier one upon his knapsack , followed . At two o'clock , at the Hôtel des Affaires Étrangères , at the corner of the Rue des Capucines and the Boulevard , an immense mass of men ebbed and flowed like tides of the sea , and a tempest of shouts , groans and choruses to national songs arose . A commissary of police in colored clothes , and with the tri-colored sash , led a body of Municipal Guards into the court . Deliberately they charge their muskets with ball . `` In the name of the Law ! ''