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He was perpetually urging upon that monarch the necessity of spending more money among his creatures in order to carry out these projects. Accordingly the attention of the Sixteen had been directed to President Brisson, who had already made himself so dangerously conspicuous by his resistance to the insolent assumption of the cardinal-legate.
"There, there, look at him," said old Madame Thibadeau to her neighbour Christine Brisson "look at him with his great grey-beard, and his eyes like black fires, and that head of hair like a bundle of burnt flax! He comes from the place no man ever saw, that's sure." "Ah, surelee, men don't grow so tall in any Christian country," announced Christine Brisson, her head nodding sagely.
The following are the Ministries of the Republic in 1870-1900: 1870, Favre; 1871, Dufaure ; 1873, De Broglie ; 1874, Cissey; 1875, Buffet; 1876, Dufaure ; 1876, Simon; 1877, De Broglie ; 1877, De Rochebouet; 1877, Dufaure ; 1879, Waddington; 1879, Freycinet ; 1880, Ferry ; 1881, Gambetta; 1882, Freycinet ; 1882, Duclerc; 1883, Fallières; 1883, Ferry ; 1885, Brisson; 1886, Freycinet ; 1886, Goblet; 1887, Rouvier; 1887, Tirard ; 1888, Floquet; 1889, Tirard ; 1890, Freycinet ; 1892, Loubet; 1892, Ribot ; 1892, Dupuy ; 1893, Casimir Périer; 1894, Dupuy ; 1895, Ribot ; 1895, Bourgeois; 1896, Méline; 1898, Brisson; 1898 Dupuy ; 1899, Waldeck-Rousseau.
For the moment however the legate contented himself with a long harangue, setting forth the power of Rome, while Brisson replied by an oration magnifying the grandeur of France. Soon afterwards the cardinal addressed himself to the counteraction of Henry's projects of conversion.
Brisson, on undertaking the post, actually thought it right to take the precaution of protesting privately, making a declaration in the presence of notaries "that he so acted by constraint only, and that he shrank from any rebellion against his king and sovereign lord."
A bold, valorous Frenchman with a flawless title, and washed whiter than snow by the freshet of holy water, might prove a more formidable claimant to the allegiance of Frenchmen than a foreign potentate, even though backed by all the doctors of the Sorbonne. The murder of President Brisson and his colleagues by the confederates of the sixteen quarters, was in truth the beginning of the end.
But nothing was further from the truth. Personally, at certain moments, when the revision proceedings began, when M. Brisson fell from office, when M. Dupuy, listening to the clamour of a pack of jackals, transferred the revision inquiry from the Criminal Chamber to the entire Court of Cassation, I thought that it might really be advisable for him to speak out.
Snatching up her bottle and making for the door, without any restraint whatever she added: "Monsieur and his aspirations are a tragedy of stupidity and equally are abounding in all the materials for a farce at the Palais de Cristal!" Monsieur Brisson was cut off from opportunity to reply to this outburst by Madame Jouval's abrupt departure. His loss of opportunity had its advantages.
Profoundly astonished, Brisson demanded to know of what crime he was accused; and under what authority. The answer was a laugh; and an assurance that he had no time to lose. He then begged that at least he might be imprisoned long enough to enable him to complete a legal work on which he was engaged, and which, by his premature death, would be lost to the commonwealth.
Indeed, it was only the preposterous temerity of Monsieur Brisson despairingly clutching at any chance to retrieve his broken fortunes that put him in the running at all. With the others, in such slighting terms referred to by Madame Vic Monsieur Peloux, a notary of standing, and the Major Gontard, of the Twenty-ninth of the Line the case was different. It had its sides.
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