Colonel Charras was Under–Secretary of State in 1848, and Acting Secretary of War under the Provisional Government.
The Questors were officers elected by the Assembly, whose special duties were to keep and audit the accounts, and who controlled all matters affecting the social economy of the House.
This grated door was closed on December 2, and was not reopened until the 12th March, when M. Louis Bonaparte came to inspect the works of the Hall of the Corps Legislatif.
This line was left blank. It was filled in later on with the name of M. Renouard, Councillor of the Court of Cassation.
The Gerontes, or Gerontia, were the Elders of Sparta, who constituted the Senate.
The "bureau" of the Assembly consists of the President, for the time being of the Assembly, assisted by six secretaries, whose duties mainly lie in deciding in what sense the Deputies have voted. The "bureau" of the Assembly should not be confounded with the fifteen "bureaux" of the Deputies, which answer to our Select Committees of the House of Commons, and are presided over by self–chosen Presidents.
An allusion to the twenty–five francs a day officially payable to the members of the Assembly.
Michel de Bourges had thus characterized Louis Bonaparte as the guardian of the Republic against the Monarchical parties.
"There was also a misunderstanding respecting the appointed time. Some made a mistake, and thought it was nine o'clock. The first arrivals impatiently awaited their colleagues. They were, as we have said, some twelve or fifteen in number at half–past eight. 'Time is being lost,' exclaimed one of them who had hardly entered; 'let us gird on our sashes; let us show the Representatives to the People, let us join it in raising barricades.' We shall perhaps save the country, at all events we shall save the honor of our party. 'Come, let us to the barricades!' This advice was immediately and unanimously acclaimed: one alone, Citizen Baudin, interposed the forcible objection, 'we are not sufficiently numerous to adopt such a resolution.' But he spiritedly joined in the general enthusiasm, and with a calm conscience, after having reserved the principle, he was not the last to gird on his sash."—SCHOELCHER, Histoire des Crimes du 2d Decembre, pp. 130–131.
A typographical error—it should read "Article LXVIII." On the subject of this placard the author of this book received the following letter. It does honor to those who wrote it:—
CITIZEN VICTOR HUGO,—We know that you have made an appeal to arms. We have not been able to obtain it. We replace it by these bills which we sign with your name. You will not disown us. When France is in danger your name belongs to all; your name is a Public Power.
FELIX BONY.
DABAT.
This list, which belongs to History, having served as the base of the proscription list, will be found complete in the sequel to this book to be published hereafter.
A popular nickname for Louis Bonaparte. Faustin Soulouque was the negro Emperor of Hayti, who, when President of the Republic, had carried out a somewhat similar coup d'état in 1848, being subsequently elected Emperor. He treated the Republicans with great cruelty, putting most of them to death.
The above is a free rendering of the original, which is as follows:—
Des rayons du matin l'horizon se colore,
Le jour vient éclairer notre tendre entretien,
Mais est–il un sourire aux lèvres de l'aurore.
Aussi doux que le tien?
Better known afterwards as Persigny.
No. 16, Rue d'Anjou, Saint Honoré.
The author still has in his possession the note written by Lamoricière.
Later on, the wound having got worse, he was obliged to have his leg taken off.
The original of this note is in the hands of the author of this book. It was handed to us by M. Avenel on the part of M. Bocage.
It must not be forgotten that this has been written in exile, and that to name a hero was to condemn him to exile.
Died in exile in Guernsey. See the "Pendant l'Exil," under the heading Actes et Paroles, vol. ii.
Died in exile at Termonde.
Pro Hugonotorum strage. Medal struck at Rome in 1572.
16,410 men, the figures taken from the Ministry of War.
No. 20, Cité Rodier.
Rue Caumartin. See pages 142, 145–148.
"Les Châtiments."
We may now, after twenty–six years, give the name of this loyal and courageous man. His name was Galoy (and not Galloix, as certain historians of the coup d'état have printed it while recounting, after their fashion, the incidents which we are about to read).
February 18. Louvain.
It was this same Criscelli, who later on at Vaugirard in the Rue du Trancy, killed by special order of the Prefect of Police a man named Kech, "suspected of plotting the assassination of the Emperor."
The Marquis Sarrazin de Montferrier, a relative of my eldest brother. I can now mention his name.
Anglice, "old clothes men."
14th of June, 1847. Chamber of Peers. See the work "Avant l'Exile."
"Les Hommes de l'Exile," by Charles Hugo.
See "Les Hommes de l'Exile."
The name given to a population belonging to the Romanic family, and more particularly to those of French descent, who occupy the region along the frontiers of the German–speaking territory in the South Netherlands from Dunkirk to Malmedy in Rhenish Prussia.
"Archives of the house of Orange," page 125, Supplement.
M. Harwik.
The Franco–German War of 1870–71. Report of the Prussian Staff, page 1087.
"The French were literally awakened from sleep by our attack." —Helvic.
"L'Année Terrible."