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With that he is a curt, bold, expeditious man, resolute, but cunning and reserved. At the Chamber he occupies the extreme end of the fourth bench of the last section on the left, exactly above M. Ledru-Rollin. He usually sits with folded arms. The bench on which Ledru-Rollin and Lamennais sit is perhaps the most habitually irritated of the Left.
A month later, April 15, another outbreak was planned. The chief club leaders wished it to be headed by Ledru-Rollin and Blanqui, the latter a conspirator in Louis Philippe's time. "Well, then," said the club leaders, "since you decline to be our chief, you shall to-morrow share the fate of your colleagues."
As the ranks of the Ministry split up into factions, Madame Sand attached herself to the party of Ledru-Rollin in whom at that time she had confidence, a party that desired to see him at the head of affairs, and that included Jules Favre, Étienne Arago, and Armand Barbès. No more zealous political partizan and agent than Madame Sand.
The Ledru-Rollin group is completely disorganized. No more parties; the Republic. It is well. I presented some Dutch cheese to Mme. Paul Meurice. Sleet is falling. December 12. I arrived in Brussels nineteen years ago to-day. December 13. Since yesterday Paris has been lighted with petroleum. Heavy cannonade to-night. December 14. Thaw. Cannonade. It is fine and hideous. December 15.
He had first to conquer before he could attempt to govern, and to conquer, too, with the means of his enemy. All this was changed in 1848. Then he was safe in France, as he had been in England, and began the political race on equal terms with such men as Cavaignac and Ledru-Rollin. That he soon passed far ahead of them was, perhaps, as much due to circumstances as to his political abilities.
The new ministers at once set out for the Hotel de Ville. At the Chamber of Deputies not once was the word "Republic" uttered in any of the speeches of the orators, not even in that of Ledru-Rollin. But now, outside, in the street, the elect of the people heard this words this shout, everywhere. It flew from mouth to mouth and filled the air of Paris.
It was still stamped, still palpitating, so to speak, with the fever of the moment. The words hurriedly scribbled were scarcely formed. Appelee was written appellee. When these half dozen lines had been written Lamartine handed the sheet to Ledru-Rollin.
Lamartine understood the significance of this grammatical observation, which was simply a political revolution. "But we must await the sanction of France," he said. "I can do without the sanction of France," cried Ledru-Rollin, "when I have the sanction of the people." "Of the people of Paris. But who knows at present what is the will of the people of France?" observed Lamartine.
Little Jeanne this evening has recovered from her cold. I entertained my usual Sunday guests. We had fish, butter and white bread for dinner. February 6. Bourbaki, defeated, has killed himself. A grand death. Ledru-Rollin is drawing back from the Assembly. Louis Blanc came and read this news to me to-night. February 7. We had three or four cans of preserves which we ate to-day. February 8.
In March she came up to Paris and placed her services as journalist and partizan generally at the disposal of Ledru-Rollin, Minister of the Interior under the new Government. "Here am I already doing the work of a statesman," she writes from Paris to her son at Nohant, March 24.
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