About three o'clock
Frederick noticed a timepiece , a parrot-stick , and some engravings . When he entered the Mayor 's office , the National Guards were chattering without a moment 's pause about the deaths of Bréa and Négrier , about the deputy Charbonnel , and about the Archbishop of Paris . He heard them saying that the Duc d'Aumale had landed at Boulogne , that Barbès had fled from Vincennes , that the artillery were coming up from Bourges , and that abundant aid was arriving from the provinces . About three o'clock some one brought good news . Truce-bearers from the insurgents were in conference with the President of the Assembly . Thereupon they all made merry ; and as he had a dozen francs left , Frederick sent for a dozen bottles of wine , hoping by this means to hasten his deliverance . Suddenly a discharge of musketry was heard .