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<noinclude>{{work}}</noinclude>=== Book 14—The Grandeurs of Despair ===
==== CHAPTER I—The Flag: Act First ====
As yet, nothing had come. Ten o’clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most distant sound of marching.
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Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing distinctly, to the old popular air of “By the Light of the Moon,” this bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:—
<poem>Mon nez est en larmes,
Mon ami Bugeaud,
Prête moi tes gendarmes
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La poule au shako,
Voici la banlieue!
Co-cocorico!54</poem>
<ref>My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico. </ref>
They pressed each other’s hands.
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“Does no one volunteer?”
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