It was there that a body of police officers had arrested him on the night of December 4. He had been walking along the Boulevard Montmartre at about two o'clock, quietly making his way through the crowd, and smiling at the number of soldiers that the Elysee had sent into the streets to awe the people, when the military suddenly began making a clean sweep of the thoroughfare, shooting folks down at close range during a quarter of an hour.
Hantxe atxilotu zuen udaltzain talde batek abenduaren 4ko gauean. Montmartre bulebarrean aurrera zebilen, arratsaldeko ordu biak aldera, oinez lasai-lasai jendetzaren artean, irribarrez Elyseetik begirunea bereganatzeko asmoz paseatzera bidalitako soldadu haiengatik, eta, bat-batean, soldaduak berbertatik tiro egiten hasi eta ordu laurden batean aritu ziren espaloiak garbitzen.