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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 135
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the this French ideathat peop no le other . So flag strong was ly hoisted were the during people the of strugg Paris le impressed than the with red
flag . Whence , a natural desire to keep , after the victory , the standard under was which urged the battle to change had the been flag foug and ht . prevailed * * * The to Provisional abolish the Government punishment
of death , by the same person , , and that person upon was—myself . " This volume of " Historical Revelations " is no dry book of facts ,
but a vivid and often glowing picture of the important events in which the writer was a principal actor ; events powerfully and
p Of icturesquel this nature y ren is de red , descri and p their tion of results the o p ath hilo of sop all hicall egiance y app taken lied .
by the Army to the Republic , upon the occasion of the Provisional Government distributing new nags to the National Guard and
Army . A scene of profound enthusiasm ensued , admirably depicted , and which thus concludes :
ishment " The , Eng how lish it happene who may d that read these Louis line Bonaparte s , will to enquire find on the perhaps 2 nd of in with December this aston- ,
1851 , was which able on to the find 20 tools th of , A and pril is , now 1848 able , fraternised supporters so warmly with same the army Parisians , and , swore fidelity to the Republic with so manifest an
enthusiasm , . The explanation of this fact , so extraordinary to a foreigner , of so painful every standing to a Frenchman army , wherever , is traceable regular to that troops which are is constitutes emp vast loyed the in putting essence of
whe down els civil within disturbances wheelsall . In set France going , b the y a army moving a force of assemblage some kind . Admirable in warand , animated on the field of battle by the noblest
sentiments that thrill the , human heartthe soldier in time of peace has , and can havebut one only motive , promotion , ; but one religion , the hierarchy of
grades soldier , ; being but one entirel science y a passive , discipline instrument ; but one in the law hands , obedience of the . corporal The privat , the e in the hands of the ofiieer
and corporal so on in , the the onl hands y thing of the which sergeant puts , the the sergeant army in motion , either is in at one its ,
direction or the other , is the will of him , whoever he may be , who head committed . If on the the inconceivable eve of the blunder coup d ' etat of confided putting of December the it to army General , the under assembl the y comm had an not d
of the Presidentand hadinstead Changarnier , I have easy Changarnier as a L strong ouis would Bonaparte moral , have conviction made made , them the soldiers that arrest , , in General arrest case Louis of Changarnier the a Bonaparte strugg executive . le , Whence , General just as it
follows thatwith a standing army in the hands of power , liberty in a , country becomes impossible . " To the many anecdotes already in circulation concerning the
ignorance of the peasantry in France , we add another , on the authority of M . Louis Blanc .
denie " It d , is that quite in certain certain , incredible sequestered as districts it may , of appear M most . Ledru , and Ilollin the fact , habits under has not the been title
two of Duke mistresses Rollin , La was Marie believed and La to Martine be a man ; ( mistaking profligate M . Marie and , having M . de Lamartine for , two womenfrom the first having a woman ' s Christian name ,
it and ;) the whereat latter the suggesting good honest the , female x > eople who name had Martine been made with the to gobble article down la before this than h
ludicrous story , very naturally said , 'Oh ! one mistress is more , enoug ; but a couple , it is too bad . ' "
Lord Normanby ' s " Year of Revolution in Paris , " wholly
Notices Of Books. 135
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 135
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/63/
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