Le Creusot

and they're meeting around tables and talking and arguing and debating and yelling and hugging, long into the night, as the guns draw nearer.

There were communes in other cities too, with a variety of demands, in Limoges, in Le Creusot, in Saint-Étienne, in Narbonne, in Lyon, and in Marseille, and even an attempt in Bordeaux.

And Paris keeps waiting for these armies of citizens to come, and citoyennes, female citizens, also to come and rescue them.

But in the meantime you've got people from the northern and northeastern quarters of Paris, the poor, living on the edge of Paris, who come down into the fancy quarters for the very first time and are not working as someone's maid.