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2d of December arms army arrested Assembly ballot balls Baroche barricade blood Boulevard Boulogne Cæsar called century CHAPTER Charlet citizens Clamecy conscience Constitution Corps Legislatif corpses Council coup d'état Court of Peers cried crime crushed dead decree Duke of Alva Elysée emperor everything exile eyes Faubourg feet fire five hundred thousand France French gendarmes grape-shot hand head honor hour human jacquerie judge Jules Favre justice killed liberty live longer look Louis Bonaparte Louis Napoleon magistrates massacre Maupas million five hundred minister moral nation necessary night oath one's orator Paris parliamentarism pass Poissonnière police prefect prefecture of police President prince prince-president proscribed Republic saber seized Senate seven million five shot side soldiers speak streets suppressed thing thousand francs to-day took tribune troops universal suffrage Vive wish words
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Seite 13 - In presence of God, and before the French people, represented by the National Assembly, I swear to remain faithful to the Democratic Republic One and Indivisible, and to fulfil all the duties which the Constitution imposes upon me.
Seite 298 - This age proclaims the sovereignty of the citizen, and the inviolability of life; it crowns the people and consecrates man. In art, it possesses every kind of genius; writers, orators, poets, historians, publicists, philosophers, painters, sculptors, musicians; majesty, grace, power, figure, splendor, depth, color, form, style ; it...
Seite 32 - Lottery of the ingots of gold." In the weeks preceding the coup d'etat, this money-bag had become transparent, and a hand was perceived in it resembling his. On the 2nd of December and the following days, he, the Executive Power, assailed the Legislative Power, arrested the Representatives, drove away the Assembly, dissolved the Council of State, expelled the High Court of Justice, suppressed the laws, took twenty-five millions from the Bank, gorged the army with gold, mowed down Paris with grape-shot,...
Seite 299 - ... itself at once in the real and in the ideal, and carries in its hand those two thunderbolts, the true and the beautiful. In science it works all miracles ; it makes saltpetre out of cotton...
Seite 15 - Justice will meet immediately under pain of forfeiture ; they will convoke the juries in the place which they will select to proceed to the judgment of the President and his accomplices...
Seite 14 - The conduct of the honorable General Cavaignac has been worthy of "the loyalty of his character and! of that sentiment of duty which is the first qualification of the head of a State.
Seite 27 - Fear nothing, do what they please, laugh, dance — it is more solid than dry land. It actually sounds under the foot like granite. Long live winter ! Long live ice ! There is ice, and it shall stand forever. And look at the heavens ! Is it day ? Is it night ? A gleam, wan and pale, crawls over the snow. One would say that the sun is dead. No ; thou art not dead, Liberty. On a day, and at the moment when they least expect it, at the hour when they had most profoundly forgotten thee, thou shalt arise....
Seite 246 - In pursuance of Article 68 of the Constitution — viz. — The President of the Republic, the Ministers, the agents, and depositaries •of public authority, are responsible, each in what concerns themselves respectively, for all the acts of the Government and the Administration — any measure by which the President of the Republic dissolves the National Assembly, prorogues it, or places obstacles in the exercise of its powers, is a crime of high treason.
Seite 299 - Word becomes manna, and the serf gathers it in the furrow; fanaticisms die; oppression becomes impossible ; man no longer crawls upon the earth, he escapes from it ; civilization takes to itself the wings of birds, and flies and whirls...