The Peacock Street Cabaret (V. Hugo, Quatre-vingt-treize, Edition nationale, t34) -

"There used to be a cabaret on rue du Paon called a café. This café had a back room, now historic. It was there that men so powerful and so closely guarded that they hesitated to speak to each other in public sometimes met, more or less secretly. It was here, on October 23, 1792, that a famous kiss was exchanged between the Montagne and the Gironde. It was here that Garat, though he doesn't admit it in his Mémoires, had come to intelligence on that gloomy night when, after taking Clavière to safety on Rue de Beaune, he stopped his carriage on Pont-Royal to listen to the tocsin.
On June 28, 1793, three men were gathered around a table in this back room. Their chairs weren't touching; they were each seated at one side of the table, leaving the fourth empty. It was about eight o'clock in the evening; it was still light in the street, but dark in the back room, and a quinquet hanging from the ceiling, a luxury of the time, illuminated the table." (Fourty-Thirteen, II, 1, "Minos, Eaque and Rhadamante")