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Millière. It is in this manner that this name made its first appearance
in the gloomy days of our History. I can still see that pale young man,
that eye at the same time piercing and half closed, that gentle and
forbidding profile. Assassination and the Pantheon awaited him. He was
too obscure to enter into the Temple, he was sufficiently deserving to
die on its threshold. Baudin showed him the copy which he had just made.
Millière went up to him.
"
You do not know me," said he; "my name is Millière; but I know you, you
are Baudin."
Baudin held out his hand to him.
I was present at the handshaking between these two spectres.
Xavier Durrieu, who was editor of the Révolution made the same offer as
Millière.
A dozen Representatives took their pens and sat down, some around a
table, others with a sheet of paper on their knees, and called out to
me,--
"Dictate the Proclamation to us."
I had dictated to Baudin, "Louis Napoléon Bonaparte is a traitor." Jules
Favre requested the erasure of the word Napoléon, that name of glory
fatally powerful with the People and with the Army, and that there should
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