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Updated: June 6, 2025
He lived in grand style, and his palace, with its courts and gardens, was the resort of the most distinguished men in France, the Duke of Choiseul, Dupin, Béranger, Casimir Périer, Montalivet, the two Aragos, Guizot, Odillon Barrot, Villemain, politicians, artists, and men of letters. His ministry, however, lasted less than a year.
The voice of the speaker was drowned in shouts of dissent and of "Vive la Réforme!" "I dissent from the opinion of M. Odillon Barrot!" cried the Marquis de la Rochejacquelin. "If he is right, the people are nothing!" "Order order!" cried the President, putting on his hat, but he was at once induced to remove it.
I shouted from my bench: "To his functions!" The President of the Assembly announced that the President of the Republic had charged M. Odilon Barrot with the formation of a Cabinet, and that the names of the new Ministers would be announced to the Assembly in a Message; that, in fact, a supplement to the Moniteur would be distributed to the Representatives that very evening.
A moment or two later M. Ernest Berty, or whatever his real name may have been, entered the room. Whether he had encountered his exquisite sister on the corridor or the stairs, I could not tell; his face, in the dim light of the hanging lamp, looked impenetrable and sinister. "This way, M. Barrot," he said curtly.
"Will you, can you help us, dear M. Barrot? Mother and I will be at Gex to-morrow at one hour after sundown. We will lie perdu in the little Taverne du Roi de Rome, where, if you come to us, you will find us waiting anxiously. If you can do nothing to help us, we must return broken-hearted to our hated prison; but something in my heart tells me that you can help us.
He explained rain; he explained the revolution of July; he explained things impenetrable; he explained Louis-Philippe, Odilon Barrot, Monsieur Thiers, the Eastern Question; he explained Champagne; he explained 1788; he explained the tariff of custom houses and humanitarians, magnetism and the economy of the civil list.
M. Cremieux ascended the tribune and flatly proposed a provisional government. M. Odilon Barrot, who had been fetched from the Ministry of the Interior, made his appearance at last and pleaded for the Regency, but without eclat and without energy. Suddenly a mob of people and National Guards with arms and flags invaded the chamber.
M. Blanc, placed on the borders of democracy and socialism, one degree lower than the Republic, two degrees beneath M. Barrot, three beneath M. Thiers, is also, whatever he may say and whatever he may do, a descendant through four generations from M. Guizot, a doctrinaire. "Certainly," cries M. Blanc, "we are not of those who anathematize the principle of authority.
At length, in utter consternation and dismay the old President put on his hat, and, pronouncing the séance ended, rushed from his chair amid a hurricane of uproarious shouts." "And Odillon Barrot?" "Odillon Barrot led the opposition members immediately from the Chamber to his own house, where they have been ever since in deliberation.
In a sitting in the French Assembly, a member of the opposition said to the President of the Council: 'You are going to reinstate the Pope! 'No, no, ejaculated Odilon Barrot. 'You are going to do the same as Austria, cried Lamoricière. 'We should be culpable if we did, was the answer. Lesseps' instructions, very vague, for the rest, were given to him in this spirit.
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