Saint-Marc. A regiment of Saint-Marc devoted to Guerrier is drawn up on the place Pétion.

The resident national guard assembled on the place Pétion twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday. On 2 May, a Thursday, it came to take up its line of battle as usual. The most ardent of the conspirators, the citizens Sauveur Faubert and Blanfort Juda, had conceived the idea of shooting down Hérard Dumesle as soon as he appeared on the square to inspect the national guard. In concert with Paul Cupidon and general Bellanton, they had had a regiment of Saint-Marc, composed of 400 men and wholly devoted to Guerrier, drawn up facing the citizens, on the side of the tomb of Pétion. Bellanton and Paul Cupidon, although they answered to the Ministry of War, were in the plot.