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Updated: July 29, 2025
In the following terms Louis Blanc describes this singular event: "While every one was seeking to realize his wishes, a few voices only were heard uttering the name of the emperor in a city that had so long echoed to that sound. Two men without influence, military reputation, or celebrity of any kind, MM. Ladvocat and Dumoulin, conceived, for a while, the idea of proclaiming the Empire.
Fixed into the wall, on the right-hand side, is the one remarkable thing in this most ordinary looking office: here is the famous steel press, of which Commandant Dumoulin alone possesses the key, and in which are enclosed, they say, the most secret instructions relating to National Defence and Mobilisation.
"The young girl who had received my sister," said Mother Bunch, with embarrassment, casting down her eyes and blushing, "does not lead a very regular life. A person, with whom she has gone on several parties of pleasure, one M. Dumoulin, had informed her of the real name of M. Rodin, who has a kind of lodging in that house, and there goes by the name of Charlemagne."
Fandor turned to the thunderstruck Dumoulin, and said in a voice of the most exquisite politeness: "Commandant, I must state once for all that I am not Corporal Vinson!... I am a journalist, whom you perhaps know by name: Jérôme Fandor, on the staff of La Capitale.... If you see me in this uniform, this disguise, that relates to a series of events, details of which I will give you with pleasure, as soon as I have reduced my own ideas to order.... As things stand, I am fortunate in meeting my friend Juve, who, if you desire it, will confirm the truth of my statement."
"Rennepont!" cried Dumoulin, who appeared struck by the name, in spite of his half-drunkenness; "you are Rennepont?" "Rennepont in the fullest sense of the word. Does that astonish you?" "There is a very ancient family of that name the Counts of Rennepont." "The deuce there is!" said the other, laughing. "The Counts of Rennepont are also Dukes of Cardoville," added Dumoulin.
"Colonel Dumoulin," said he, "take a battalion of grenadiers and hasten to my brother's deliverance." The soldiers rushed into the room, drove back the crowd who, with violent menaces, were surrounding Lucien, and saying, "It is by your brother's commands," escorted him in safety out of the ball into the court-yard.
Here Commandant Dumoulin, to whom Lieutenant Servin had made a suggestion, intervened anew: "Monsieur the President, gentlemen, having regard to the grave declarations made by this witness, I require her immediate arrest!" Hardly had this demand been voiced when a loud cry rang out, electrifying the whole court. Bobinette had swallowed the contents of a small phial hidden in her muff!
"They could not be more so." Here Dumoulin spoke the truth. "I shall not have to be unfaithful to Philemon?" "No." "Or faithful to any one else?" "No." Rose-Pompon looked confounded. Then she rattled on: "Come, do not let us have any joking! I am not foolish enough to imagine that I am to live just like a duchess, just for nothing. What, therefore, must I give in return?" "Nothing at all."
"Or not at all." "To-day?" "On the instant." "But where will they take me?" "How should I know?" "You do not know where they will take me?" "Not I," and Dumoulin still spoke the truth "the coachman has his orders." "Do you know all this is very funny, Ninny Moulin?" "I believe you. If it were not funny, where would be the pleasure?" "You are right." "Then you accept the offer? That is well.
Lieutenant Servin approached: in a low voice he said: "Commandant! Someone wishes you to see him immediately." Servin handed his superior a card. On it the commandant read: Inspector Juve, Detective Force, Police Headquarters. "What does he want?" "He is the detective who arrested Vinson." "Well," exclaimed the exasperated Dumoulin, "he arrives at the right moment! Let him come in!"
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