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The others did not attempt to go to their assistance, and the Marquis de Gemosac had a hundred questions to ask Colville. The Englishman had little to tell of his own escape. There were so many more important arrests to be made that the overworked police of Monsieur de Maupas had only been able to apportion to him a bungler whom Colville had easily outwitted. "And Madame St.
A steady fire was at once opened and, although its effects could not be perceived, they were evidently sensible; for the columns immediately threw out half their strength, as skirmishers, and opened fire. In a hundred paces De Maupas halted his men, and told them to lie down behind shelter. The enemy were now five hundred yards off, and the franc tireurs had been joined by the sentries.
It is only a month since he changed his ministry. Who is this St. Arnaud, his Minister of War? Who is Maupas, his Prefect of Police? Does Monsieur Maupas know that we are nearly ready for our coup? Bah! Tell me nothing of that sort, gentlemen."
Major Tempe and his officers looked at each other. They had not, as yet, thought the matter over; but the instant it was put plainly before them, they saw the difficulty. "Oh," Lieutenant de Maupas said, confidently, "we shall, of course, put the nitroglycerine somewhere in the middle of the tunnel, and blow the whole affair up."
Resolved then on war, the real disturber of the peace of Europe, and goaded on by his councillors, the conspirators of the 2d of December, Morny, Fleury, Maupas, etc., Louis Napoleon turned around to seek an ally; for France alone was not strong enough to cope with Russia. Austria having so much to lose, did not want war, and was afraid of Nicholas. So was Prussia.
'Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days. Henry IV. Part II. Act IV. Sc. 4. Lord Lanesborough v. Reilly. See Maupas, Mémoires sur le Second Empire, i. 511, 512.
The Gendarmerie itself is not to be depended upon, and this morning an entire regiment refused to march. Disorder is beginning to show itself in the services. Two batteries fired upon each other for a long time without recognition. One would say that the coup d'état is about to fail." The symptoms, as may be seen, were growing more reassuring. Had Maupas become unequal to the task?
Was he about to supplant Maupas? The Representative Labrousse, seated at a table of the café, had witnessed this conspirators' parley. Each of the two Commissaries was followed by that species of police agent which is called "the Commissary's dog." At the same time strange warnings reached the Committee; the following letter was brought to our knowledge. "3d December.
The Prefect of Police, Carlier, was simultaneously replaced by Maupas; and the chief of the First Military Division Magnan, concentrated the most reliable regiments in the capital. On November 4, the National Assembly re-opened its sessions.
But very little more did either he, his lady, and his three children wear, as they trudged along the drove, in even poorer case than that Robert of Coningsby, Who came out of Normandy, With his wife Tiffany, And his maid Maupas, And his dog Hardigras. "For the love of heaven and all chivalry, joke me no jokes, Sir Ivo, but give me and mine clothes and food!
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