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I passed the day in shouting , ` Long live Lafayette ! ' and I passed the night in making barricades . The next morning we were attacked by the regulars . In the evening , towards four o'clock , we were blocked , cannonaded , swept with grape-shot , and crushed back into the Church of Saint-Méry . I had a bullet and three bayonet-stabs in my body when I was picked up by the soldiers from the stone floor of a little chapel to the left -- the Chapel of St. John . I have often gone back to that little chapel -- not to pray , I was n't brought up with such ideas -- but to see the stains of my blood which still remain on the stones . `` On account of my youth I received a ten-year sentence .