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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Monsieur Victor Hugo," he said, "I have come to reassure you; I have received news from the Place Royale." "Well, general?" "Your family are safe." "Thanks! Yes, I have just been so informed." "But your house has been burnt down." "What does that matter?" said I. Negrier warmly pressed my arm: "I understand you. Let us think only of one thing. Let us save the country!"
The councils of war are sitting in permanence, and order all prisoners to be shot. The 30th of the Line have shot a woman. Oil upon fire. "The colonel of the 49th of the Line has resigned. Louis Bonaparte has appointed in his place Lieutenant Colonel Négrier. M. Brun, Officer of the Police of the Assembly, was arrested at the same time as the Questors.
Lamartine, standing in a window recess on the left, was talking to a general in full uniform, whom I saw for the first and last time, and who was Negrier. Negrier was killed that same evening in front of a barricade. I hurried to Lamartine, who advanced to meet me. He was wan and agitated, his beard was long, his clothes were dusty. He held out his hand: "Ah! good morning, Hugo!"
Lamartine half turned towards them and said in an undertone: "A state of siege! A state of siege! Well, declare it if you think it is necessary. I have nothing to say!" He dropped into a chair, repeating: "I have nothing to say, neither yes nor no. Do what you like!" General Negrier came up to me.
M. Ampere announced the news to the Academy, which thereupon decided to adjourn. I quitted the National Assembly, where a questor to succeed General Negrier, who was killed in June, was being nominated, and went to M. de Chateaubriand's house, No. 110, Rue du Bac. I was received by M. de Preuille, son-in-law of his nephew. I entered Chateaubriand's chamber.
Recently General de Negrier, after having insisted that physical exhaustion determined by the nervous tension of the soldier, increased in surprising proportions according to the invisibility of the adversary, expressed himself as follows: "The tide of battle is in the hands of each fighter, and never, at any time, has the individual bravery of the soldier had more importance.
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