But about the same time, the drums of Gros Caillon and the Cours la Reine were heard calling to arms.
From Gros Caillon it was Lafayette, and from Cours la Reine, Bailly, who arrived with the National and paid Guards.
Lafayette sent, in advance, an aide-de-camp and a hundred armed men, to find out what was really passing in the Champ de Mars. But from the group, which I have already mentioned as having been commanded by Verriéres and Fournier, a gun-shot was seen to proceed, which wounded the aide-de-camp of Lafayette.
The advance guard returned to Lafayette, and the aide-de-camp, bleeding, made his report on the manner in which he was received.
To him, wounded as he was on his entry into the Champs, all the inoffensive strollers appeared to be brigands.
Lafayette placed himself at the head of the three thousand men he commanded, and marched on the Champ de Mars.
He found Fournier, Verriéres, and those they led, busily engaged in raising a barricade. He marched straight up to the barricade, and destroyed it. From under a cart, Fournier, the American, fired through one of the wheels on Lafayette.
The gun missed fire.
Fournier, the American, was taken, and charged with revolt and homicide.