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He almost cried with joy, and, a week later, it was announced in the Journal Officiel that M. Caillard had been awarded the Legion of Honor on account of his exceptional services. The Bondels were a happy family, and although they frequently quarrelled about trifles, they soon became friends again.
You have all taken your time about it, but it's really a very fine ministry, which everybody regards with surprise and admiration." The decrees appointing the new ministers had appeared in the "Journal Officiel" that very morning.
W. was rather tired; the constant talking and seeing so many people of all kinds was very fatiguing, for, as long as his resignation was not official, announced in the Journal Officiel, he was still Minister of Foreign Affairs. One of the last days, when they were hoping to come to an agreement, he was obliged to come home early to receive the mission from Morocco.
He opened the Annuaire Officiel de l'Armee Francaise, just as I might have done myself, and said: "There are six regiments. One is at Blidah, another at Tlemcen, another at Constantine, another at Tunis, another at Algiers, and another at Mascara." "To which regiment, then, did Captain Vauvenarde belong?" I inquired. He referred to one of the dossiers that the orderlies had brought him.
But even so, I do not believe Monsieur de Lissac is authorized by the Grand Chancellor to wear his decoration. That is easily ascertained! I will nevertheless not fail to insert in the Officiel to-morrow a note relative to the illegality of wearing certain foreign decorations " "Is this note directed against Lissac?" "Not at all.
Tuesday's Officiel positively announced the ceremony for that day at 2, and the concourse was greater than ever.
There is no doubt of the existence of a serious conspiracy, possessing wide ramifications, in Paris to effect the overthrow of the Commune. The Garden of the Luxembourg has been closed, and is occupied by four battalions of National Guards, as a precaution against the rising which is apprehended. MAY 15th. The Journal Officiel announced that the Column would positively fall to-day at 2.
December 29th. So we have withdrawn from the plateau of Avron. Our artillery, says the Journal Officiel, could not cope with the Krupp cannons, and, therefore, it was thought wise to withdraw them. The fire which the Prussians have rained for the last two days upon this position has not been very destructive of human life.
Furthermore, to obtain an idea of the "crystallizing" labor involved in transporting the simplest circumstances from reality to fiction, from life to romance, one need only open the Moniteur Officiel of February, 1864, and compare a certain session of the Corps Législatif with the picture that I give of it in my book.
The Journal Officiel contains a long address to the Parisians. Beyond the statement that no news had been received since the 14th ult., this document contains nothing but empty words. Between the lines one may, perhaps, read a desire to bring before the population the terrible realities of the situation. The deaths for the last week amount to 3,280, an increase on the previous week of 552.
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