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The despatches announcing these successes are read aloud at the doors of the mairies. Victory! The Second of December has been wiped out! December 3. General Renault, who was wounded in the foot by a splinter from a shell, is dead. I told Schoelcher that I want to go out with my sons if the batteries of the National Guard to which they belong are sent to the front. The batteries drew lots.
The soldiers turned themselves round so that the cartridges might be taken from their pouches. The muskets were immediately loaded. "Now," exclaimed De Flotte, "we have thirty guns, let us look for a street corner, and raise a barricade." There were at that time about two hundred combatants. They went up the Rue de Montreuil. After some fifty steps Schoelcher said, "Where are we going?
M. Milliere proposed, as did also M. Delescluze, a motion of impeachment against the Government of the National Defence. He concluded by saying that whoever failed to join him in pressing the motion was a "dupe or an accomplice." Schoelcher rose and said: "Neither dupe nor accomplice. You lie!" March 5. Session of the Assembly. Meeting in the evening.
The list of works consulted by M. Schoelcher, prefixed to the biography, shows that he has by no means exhausted the German authorities which may be profitably used in writing upon the early history of Handel: indeed, the author, though of German descent, is unacquainted with the German language.
In the combat he was impassive, cold, gay beneath his coldness. At the Saint Antoine barricade, at the moment when the guns of the coup d'état were leveled at the Representatives of the people, he said smilingly to Madier de Montjau, "Ask Schoelcher what he thinks of the abolition of the penalty of death." They found Bastide's pipe, and they thought him dead.
The Pavilion de Rohan demands of me from to-day on 8 francs a head for dinner, which with wine, coffee, fire, etc., brings the cost of dinner up to 13 francs for each person. We had elephant steak for luncheon to-day. Schoelcher, Rochefort, Blum and all the usual Thursday guests dined with us. After dinner Louis Blanc and Pelletan dropped in. January 13. An egg costs 2 francs 75 centimes.
Schoelcher, in his "Life of Handel," says that "its author had a relative, Zachary Hardcastle, a retired merchant, who was intimately acquainted with all the most distinguished men of his time, artists, poets, musicians, and physicians."
M. Dorian came to the Pavilion de Rohan this morning to see my sons. He announced that capitulation is imminent. Frightful news from outside. Chanzy defeated, Faidherbe defeated, Bourbaki driven back. January 27. Schoelcher came to tell me that he has resigned as colonel of the artillery legion. Again they came to ask me to head a demonstration against the Hotel de Ville.
To-night there was a meeting of the two fractions of the Left, the Radical Left and Political Left, in the hall of the Academy, in the Rue Jacques Bell. The speakers were Louis Blanc, Emmanuel Arago, Vacherot, Jean Brunet, Bethmont, Peyrat, Brisson, Gambetta, and myself. I doubt whether my plan for fusion or even for an entente cordiale will succeed. Schoelcher and Edmond Adam walked home with me.
Schoelcher came down from the barricade into the street. De Flotte, Dulac, Malardier, Brillier, Maigne, and Bruckner followed him. Then was seen a grand spectacle.
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