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Coconnas had not fled, he had retreated; La Huriere had not fled, he had flown. The one had disappeared like a tiger, the other like a wolf.
The consequence was that La Huriere had already reached the Place Saint Germain l'Auxerrois when Coconnas was only just leaving the Louvre.