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184 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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national In this work avowal shops , at has once added so nai some ve ' very and curious so precise particulars , the ex- which director oug o £ ht the to
be made known . * * * Let us listen to the precious confessions of M . Emile Thomas : — Council " ' M . . Marie I went sent there for and me was to informed the H 6 tel that de Yille a credit , after of the five sitting millions of the of
francs service would was granted be more to regular the Ateliers henceforth Nationaux . M . Marie , and afterwards that the financial took me working aside , and men asked ' me I think in a so low ' I tone relied whether ' but I their thoug number ht I could increases count upon so con the
siderably , that . I find it very , difficult p , to possess so direct an influence over rej them oine as d I < could if wish hold . ' ' them Don't . in be hand uneasy the about number the can number never , ' be the too minister large
, you , ; this money but find will : if some be necessary wanted means , : you of indeed may attaching be it supp mi them lied ht be with to the you secret source sincerel funds of .. y ' . rather i I Don don 't 't serious think spare g
difficulties . But for what other , purpose than the preservation of the _piiblie you tranquillity think you , do will you be make able these to master recommendations these men comp ? ' ' letel For y pub ? lic The safety day . Do is ,
perhaps , not far distant when it may be necessary to _inarch them into the which director streets . was ' '* of Thus ho the stility national was to I me without workshop receive a farthing s d , in the order underhand , at to the create Luxembourg offer a power of a , , while the share obj the of ect ex the of
secret service money . " , introduction Our readers of will the remember red flag the by the outcry Provisional raised against Government the attem , — pted an
attempt looked upon as symbolical of outrage and bloodshed . M . Louis Blanc thus explains it : — " . As to the preference they gave to the red flag , it originated in a feeling
as honorable as it was sound . That any stress should have been laid on a congenial change of to flag the may character appear and singular habits of to the Eng French lishmen than . Yet to attach nothing a particular is more importance to what is meant to tell the imagination and to speak to the
eye . What was the national color upon in the remotest and most obscure ages of French history is a point of no great importance ., But if we refer to a more
of recent Henry perio I . d to we the find time that of the Charles red flag VII , called ., the oriflamme national standard , was , from ; whilst the rei the gn white banner marked with fleurs-de-lys was what Froissart terms ' banniere souveraine du The white to be substituted for the red
_royS flag began one system under the of standing reign of Charles armies was VII . established , that is , at in the France very , period for the when sake the of propp baneful ing
on ruins despotism the of 13 the th . of In feudal Jul 1789 y , reg , moved the ime middle to , at the the hi classes H ghest 6 tel de pitch having Ville of , raised political the adoption themselves power of , Lafayette a new over flag the ,
royalty to The be tri formed -colored , with b red y flag the and was association blue , therefore , which of , were white the result the , which colors and was the of the symbol considered Tiers of JEta a the compromise t Parisian color of .
was between no reason the king why and their the past peop p le ower . King should s havin continue g been to done be symbolised away with . , there The cal workmen knowledge of Paris ; but could they not knew of course and this be expected was enough to act that from white any subtle meant hi kingl
storipower , and that red had long , been the national color , . In their eyes the y presti become ge under of the the tri- reign colored of Louis flag had Phili been ppe , irrevocabl the dishonored y broken flag of by La its paix having a tout price . To give it was to repudiate seventeen of corrupt j > olicy
in the manner best suite up d to the tone of thought and years feeling characteristic of ,
* See " l'Hisfcoire des Ateliers Nationaux , " by M . Emile Thomas .
184 Notices Of Books.
184 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/62/
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