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Updated: June 6, 2025
Odilon Barrot means reform, but Bugeaud means repression. The King is holding out his right hand and clenching his left fist. The Prefect requested M. Moreau to spread and proclaim the news in his quarter and in the Faubourg Saint Antoine. "This is what I will do," says the Mayor.
He declared in the Chamber that these cries had been 'not only encouraged but provoked, and when the intention of the President to prolong his presidency became apparent, he assured Odilon Barrot that he was prepared, if ordered by the minister and authorised by the President of the Chamber, to anticipate the Coup d'état by seizing and imprisoning Louis Napoleon.
On February 22 Odillon Barrot was their hero, and on February 23 they hooted him. The republicans, to their own amazement, were left masters of the field of battle, and Lamartine was pushed to the front as their chief man.
The Legitimists dreamed they were back amidst the quarrels between the Tuileries and the pavilion Marsan, between Villele and Polignac; the Orleanists lived anew through the golden period of the tourneys between Guizot, Mole, Broglie, Thiers, and Odillon Barrot.
Barrot was right to-day, in the Chamber, when he said that had this manifestation been suffered the people would have become tranquil." "Tranquil, indeed!" cried Ledru Rollin. "That's exactly what we have apprehended! No no it is too late! This Reform Banquet was, at first, but an insignificant thing. In it we now recognize the commencement of a revolution.
In the midst of this terrible scene, the king took his pen to appoint another ministry, still more radically democratic than Barrot and Hauranne. As he was writing out the list, M. de Girardin entered the apartment. He was editor of the Times newspaper, and one of the most uncompromising Republicans in the city. Approaching the king, he said to him firmly, yet respectfully,
In the mean time the king formed a new and liberal ministry, consisting of MM. Thiers, Odillon Barrot, and Duvergier de Hauranne, hoping thus to conciliate the populace. The fact was placarded, at six o'clock in the morning, all over Paris. But the act of appointing Marshal Bugeaud to command the troops was a declaration of war the formation of this ministry was a supplication for peace.
Many of the illustrious men in France joined this reform party. Among others, there were M. Lafitte, the wealthy banker, M. Odillon Barrot, the renowned advocate, and M. Arago, the distinguished philosopher. We may search history in vain for the record of any monarch so unrelentingly harassed as was Louis Philippe from the time he ascended the throne until he was driven from it.
Barely half a year after his installation, he succeeded in raising this sum to its double: Odillon Barrot had wrung from the constitutive assembly a yearly allowance of 600,000 francs for so-called representation expenses. After June 13, Bonaparte hinted at similar solicitations, to which, however, Barrot then turned a deaf ear.
Odillon Barrot was, at that time, President of the French Ministry—the same Odillon Barrot who, in 1830, was prefect of police, and allowed the mansion of the Archbishop to be demolished without taking any measures for its protection. Such conduct, as has been well observed, showed that this official loved anarchy more than order.
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