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was the indignant reply . `` Give us your weapons ! '' The weapons were given and the band retired ; on the door they wrote , `` Here we received arms ! '' At five o'clock , on the evening of the 24th of February , a proclamation to the citizens of Paris , issued by the Provisional Government then in session at the Hôtel de Ville , declared the Revolution accomplished -- that eighty thousand of the National Guard and one hundred thousand of the people were in arms -- that order as well as liberty must now be secured , and the people , with the National Guard , were appointed guardians of Paris . The effect of this proclamation was magical . Never was Paris so well protected as on that night of the 24th of February , when , filled with barricades , she had no police and was guarded by her citizens . And how was constituted the Provisional Government whose power was thus implicitly obeyed ?