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"Done and deliberated in the Council Chamber. Present, M. Hardouin, President; M. Pataille, M. Moreau, M. de la Palme, and M. Cauchy, judges, this second day of December, 1851." After this textual extract from the minutes of the High Court of Justice there is the following entry: " A procès-verbal announcing the arrival of a commissaire de police, who called upon the High Court to separate.
In December, 1851, these seven judges were named Hardouin, Pataille, Moreau, Delapalme, Cauchy, Grandet, and Quesnault, the two last-named being Assistants. These men, almost unknown, had nevertheless some antecedents.
"Drawn up and discussed in the Council Chamber, where were sitting MM. Hardouin, president, Pataille, Moreau, Delapalme, and Cauchy, judges, December 2, 1851."
In fact, he called together the High Court for eleven o'clock, and it was settled that the meeting should take place in the Hall of the Library. The Judges were punctual. At a quarter-past eleven they were all assembled. M. Pataille arrived the last. They sat at the end of the great green table. They were alone in the Library. There was no ceremonial.
On the morning of the 2d December, at nine o'clock, two men mounted the stairs of M. Hardouin's house, No. 10, Rue de Condé, and met together at his door. M. Pataille had just placed himself at M. Hardouin's disposal. Martin's first thought, while reading the placards of the coup d'état, had been for the High Court.
Groups pressed round to read it, and battled with the police, who endeavored to tear down the bills. Other lithographic placards contained in two parallel columns the decree of deposition drawn up by the Right at the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, and the decree of outlawry voted by the Left. This last name was thus mis-spelt by mistake, it should read "Pataille."
"You are ordered to dissolve the High Court, and, in case of refusal, to arrest MM. Béranger, Rocher, De Boissieux, Pataille, and Hello." And, turning towards the judges, the President added, "Signed, Maupas." Then, addressing himself to the Commissary, he resumed, "There is some mistake, these are not our names.
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