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Updated: May 12, 2025
At Odilon Barrot's ball on January 28 M. Thiers went up to M. Leon Faucher and said: "Make So-and-So a prefect." M. Leon Faucher made a grimace, which is an easy thing for him to do, and said: "Monsieur Thiers, there are objections." "That's funny!" retorted Thiers, "it is precisely the answer the President of the Republic gave to me the day I said: 'Make M. Faucher a Minister!"
I had gone to see M. Odilon Barrot at Bougival. "'Dine with me, he said. " I will with pleasure. It was 3 o'clock. 'What shall we do until dinner time? "'Let us go and see La Malmaison, suggested M. Barrot. "We went. Nobody else was with us. Arrived at La Malmaison we rang the bell. A porter opened the gate, M. Barrot spoke: "'We want to see La Malmaison. "'Impossible! replied the porter.
In a sitting in the French Assembly, a member of the opposition said to the President of the Council: 'You are going to reinstate the Pope! 'No, no, ejaculated Odilon Barrot. 'You are going to do the same as Austria, cried Lamoricière. 'We should be culpable if we did, was the answer. Lesseps' instructions, very vague, for the rest, were given to him in this spirit.
Two gendarmes rushed upon Marc Dufraisse, two upon Gambon. A long struggle took place on the first bench of the Right, the same place where MM. Odilon Barrot and Abbatucci were in the habit of sitting. Paulin Durrieu resisted violence by force, it needed three men to drag him from his bench. Monet was thrown down upon the benches of the Commissaries.
Only himself, M. Odilon Barrot, and two or three others remained in the room, when the door opened. A captain entered, and said to M. Daru, "Sir, you are my prisoner." "Where am I to follow you?" asked M. Daru. "I have orders to watch over you in your own house."
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