about five o'clock
And it was not until the following morning , when the sun was high in the heavens , that he awoke , aroused by the ringing of the alarm bells , the blare of trumpets and beating of drums . During the night the Versaillese , finding a gate undefended , had effected an unresisted entrance at the Point-du-Jour . When he had thrown on his clothes and hastened down into the street , his musket slung across his shoulder by the strap , a band of frightened soldiers whom he fell in with at the _ mairie _ of the arrondissement related to him the occurrences of the night , in the midst of a confusion such that at first he had hard work to understand . Fort d'Issy and the great battery at Montretout , seconded by Mont Valerien , for the last ten days had been battering the rampart at the Point-du-Jour , as a consequence of which the Saint-Cloud gate was no longer tenable and an assault had been ordered for the following morning , the 22d ; but someone who chanced to pass that way at about five o'clock perceived that the gate was unprotected and immediately notified the guards in the trenches , who were not more than fifty yards away . Two companies of the 37th regiment of regulars were the first to enter the city , and were quickly followed by the entire 4th corps under General Douay . All night long the troops were pouring in in an uninterrupted stream . At seven o'clock Verge 's division marched down to the bridge at Grenelle , crossed , and pushed on to the Trocadero .