five o’clock
Without listening to a word the ex-Director turned his back on him , and , as Moreau insisted , he said : `` General , go into the ante-chamber . That is the place for jailers . '' Moreau bowed his head , and understood for the first time into what a fatal trap his honor had fallen . At five o'clock , Bonaparte started to return to the Rue de la Victoire ; all the generals and superior officers in Paris accompanied him . The blindest , those who had not understood the 13th Vendemiaire , those who had not yet understood the return from Egypt , now saw , blazing over the Tuileries , the star of his future , and as everybody could not be a planet , each sought to become a satellite . The shouts of `` Vive Bonaparte ! '' which came from the lower part of the Rue du Mont Blanc , and swept like a sonorous wave toward the Rue de la Victoire , told Josephine of her husband 's return .