The citizens who defend the citadel have sworn to die sooner than surrender it. They make for you a rampart with their bodies. It is your duty to succor them.
Citizens!
This very day, immediately, let all friends of liberty gather under its flag!
Let us assemble in the Field of Mars, and let an army of sixty thousand men be formed without delay.
Citizens!
Let us march on the enemy, either to fall under their blows or to exterminate them under ours!
The Commune of Paris decrees:
ARTICLE 1. The Sections shall give to the State the men ready to set out.
ARTICLE 2. The Military Committee shall sit in permanence, to receive enrolments.
ARTICLE 3. The alarm gun shall be fired, the tocsin shall ring, night and day.