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Arriving in that city he refused to be lionized, and also declined all contributions of money from admirers, but supported himself for eighteen months by making tallow candles on Staten Island. At the same time French exiles were seeking to gain a living in New York, Ledru Rollin as a store porter, Louis Blanc as a dancing-master, and Felix Pyat as a scene-shifter.
The slaughter of women and children in the streets of Lyons, and on their own hearthstones, in the course of this insurrection, was hideous, and is graphically portrayed in the memorial of our friend Ledru Rollin, as advocate in the matter.
Ledru Rollin's confidante and councillor can't occupy an honorable position, and I am sorry, for her sake and ours. When we go to Florence we must try to get the 'Portraits' and Lamartine's autobiography, which I still more long to see. So, two women were in love with him, were they? That must be a comfort to look back upon, now, when nobody will have him.
"Few deputies were there," continued Flocon. "The opposition benches were vacant. Guizot was there early, pale and troubled, but stern and unbending. All the Ministers followed him." "What was discussed?" asked Marrast. "The Bordeaux Bank Bill." "Ah!" cried Ledru Rollin again. "Yes," continued Flocon, "until five o'clock that bill was discussed.
"Yes, Louis, proceed; you look like a curé," said Rollin, laughing. "I subscribe to Louis Blanc's creed, be it what it may," added Flocon, briskly. "And so do I," said Albert, gravely, in a deep tone. Of the new visitors, Ledru Rollin was a man of medium stature, about thirty-five years of age and dressed in the extreme of the mode.
You may understand the importance of such an accusation, which tends at nothing less than my judicial assassination. In a postscript he enumerates the persons he saw on that day: Citoyen Tixier, General Cambrai, 'Demoiselle Eugenie, Citoyen Hilaire Ledru, his wife's hairdresser, the workmen in his apartments, and the porter of the house.
"Ah! ha! ha!" laughed Ledru Rollin; "just as if their abandonment of the banquet is to keep the people away from it to-morrow, any more than the Ministerial ordinances! Why, not one man in ten thousand knows of the existence of these manifestoes! But the faubourgs have been promised a holiday for a fortnight past, and they don't intend to be put off again."
At the death of his father, who left an immense fortune to be divided between Mons. Ledru and his two maiden sisters, he took possession of the estate at Fontenay-aux-Roses, from whence he had been cruelly banished when a boy, and which the unkindness of his parent had never after permitted him to enter.
A provisional government!" shouted the people. "Aye, a Republic!" cried M. Chevalier. Crémieux, Ledru Rollin and Lamartine were at the same time in the tribune. "In the name of the people, silence!" again roared the awful voice of Ledru Rollin. "A provisional government!" shouted one of the people. "You shall have a provisional government!" exclaimed M. Maguin.
Martin and all the minor theatres, where are found the masses, swarm with melodramas, farces and vaudevilles on the same subject, and none of you have forgotten the powerful play, entitled 'The Laborer of Lyons, attributed to M. Dantès, recently produced with such success on the boards of the Français itself." "And who is this M. Dantès," asked Ledru Rollin, "if you will suffer me to interrupt?"
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