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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.
Duclerc, at the head of the main body, after losing heavily, barricaded himself in a stone warehouse on the quay, round which his foes gathered thickly. While there the bells of the city rang out merrily, a sound which he fancied to be made by his own men, who he thought were thus celebrating their victory.
He now sent a demand to the governor to surrender, saying that he had been sent by the king of France to take revenge for the murder of Duclerc and the inhuman slaughter of his men. De Castro answered that his duty to his king would not permit him to surrender, and sought to show that the French had been honorably killed in battle and Duclerc murdered by an assassin beyond his control.
The Portuguese sullied their victory by acts of cruel reprisal, many of the prisoners in their hands being murdered. In all nearly seven hundred of the French were killed and wounded. Six hundred, including the wounded, were taken prisoners, and of these many died through bad treatment in the prisons. Duclerc was murdered some-months after being taken.
I found a little armchair I had when I was a child." I said to the Prince: "You see, thrones disappear, arm-chairs remain." While we were talking a few persons came, among others M. Duclerc, the ex-Minister of Finance of the Executive Committee, an old woman in black velvet whom I did not know, and Lord Normanby, the English Ambassador, whom the President quickly took into an adjoining salon.
It flew the French flag, and that standard had not been a welcome visitor in the past. In fact, it was commanded by a daring Frenchman named Duclerc, who was on the seas for spoil.
He had been praised and rewarded for the victory over Duclerc’ s expedition—praise and reward which he certainly did not deserve. For very similar conduct he was now deposed and sentenced to degradation and perpetual imprisonment, on the charge of cowardice and lack of judgment. His nephew was banished for life for bad conduct, and a captain who had given up his fort and fled was hung in effigy.
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