Just as the ballot numbers for Jerome Bonaparte and other candidates were spreading throughout the Parisian political sphere via the National Assembly, the Paris Police Department also welcomed an "uninvited guest."
An elderly gentleman in his sixties, wearing a black coat, a tall top hat, and a gold chain with three medals hanging at the button, slowly made his way to the entrance of the Paris Police Department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the aid of a servant. He then walked up the steps and entered the modest four-story building.
The two Railway Commissioners standing guard at the police department's entrance, after carefully examining the elderly man's attire, dared not stop him. If they mistakenly barred a nobleman, it would be a grave offense.
The elderly man who entered the hall of the Police Department did not linger on the first-floor lobby but walked straight to a room at the corner on the third floor.
