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French Revolution in 1848; The Three Days of February, 1848; With Sketches of Lamartine, Guizot, Etc
French Revolution in 1848 The Three Days of February 1848 With Sketches of Lamartine Guizot Etc Author:Percy Bolingbroke St. John General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: G. P. Putnam Subjects: France History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition o... more »f this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. SUNDAY AND MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 AND 21. Sunday, a dismal and rainy day, caused every one favourable to the liberal cause to rejoice that the Banquet had been adjourned to the Tuesday. Still very many people walked about Paris, anxious to pick up any scraps of information on the one exciting topic of the day. The opposition held a meeting in the morning, at which the following announcement was agreed upon. As one or two paragraphs in it were made the excuse for prohibiting the Banquet, I give it entire, as it was published in all the papers of Sunday evening and Monday morning. " The general committee charged to organize the Banquet of the 12th arrondissement, thinks it right to state that the object of the demonstration fixed for Tuesday, is the legal and pacific exercise of a constitutional right, the right of holding political meetings, without which representative government would only be a subject of derision. " The Ministry having declared and maintained at the tribune that this right is subject to the good pleasure of the police, Deputies of the Opposition, Peers of France, ex-deputies, members of the Conseil-Ge'ne'ral, magistrates, officers, sub-officers, and soldiers of the National Guard, members of the central committee of electors of the Opposition, and editors of newspapers of Paris, have accepted the invitation which was made to take part in the demonstration, in order to protest, invirtue of the law, against an illegal and arbitrary pretension. " As it is natural to forese...« less