Besides Cheroni, several other soldiers were found at the venue. They were taken away with the gendarmes, while everyone else remained in the opera house.
Even if they wanted to leave, they could not. Every entrance and exit had been surrounded, unless the opera house truly had some so-called underground passage.
But Georgiana thought of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. She first wrote Dubois a note, ordering that the prisoners were not to be tortured and that they were to be confined somewhere "decent."
Hobbes's Leviathan had said that anything agreed upon by all participants could not be unjust.
Yet the South-of-the-Mountains Republic's constitution had not been passed through a referendum, nor had there been a Constituent Assembly.
The temper of public opinion was not difficult to guess. Otherwise, Cheroni would not have gathered so many people merely by handing out leaflets.
An opera house was actually much like a Panopticon. Every box was a separate cell, though the boxes at La Scala Opera House were arranged in a horseshoe rather than a circle.
She ordered everyone to choose a "room" alone before food and water were supplied. As for the problem of using the toilet... someone else could figure that out.
She remembered that many boxes at the Paris Opera had curtains, though she did not know whether La Scala Opera House did. She had never been inside.
In short, as long as everyone was watched, it could at least be ensured that they were not abused during their confinement.
At that moment, the manager of La Scala Opera House arrived. He looked nervous and was drenched in sweat, as if he had rushed there from somewhere.
The opera house was generally used for rehearsals during the day, while the evenings were its proper business hours, when