one o'clock before
All the city was illuminated , and we had put lamps in our windows also . Every moment we heard the crackers in the street and the children were shouting , `` Vive l'Empereur ! '' and the soldiers were coming out of the inns , singing , `` Down with the émigrés . '' This lasted till very late , and it was one o'clock before we slept . This general satisfaction continued for five or six days . The old mayors and their assistants were replaced as well as the field-guards , and all those who had been displaced a few months before . The whole city , even the women , wore little tri-colored cockades , and all the seamstresses were busily at work making them , of red , white , and blue ribbon ; and those who railed so bitterly against the `` ogre of Corsica , '' never spoke of Louis XVIII .