Rue Pavée (Port-au-Prince). Over four hundred cavalry gather before Rivière Hérard’s house.

From that moment the whole town was on its feet; the national guard took up arms in a body; the cavalry, more than four hundred men strong, assembled in the paved street before the house of Rivière Hérard, raising the cries of Long live the revolution! Long live Rivière! At daybreak Rivière Hérard rode through the town, preceded by this cavalry. The inhabitants of Port-au-Prince, anti-Boyériste for the most part, gave ovations to Régis in every street. The ladies brought him crowns and bouquets and pressed his hand. I saw some who, in their enthusiasm, gave him the fraternal embrace. The authorities at once proceeded to numerous arrests; Mercure, who had escaped, was taken at some distance from Port-au-Prince.