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This last placard, printed on little squares of paper, was distributed
abroad, says an historian of the coup d'état, by thousands of copies.
For their part the criminals installed in the Government offices replied
by threats: the great white placards, that is to say, the official
bills, were largely multiplied. On one could be read:--
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WE, PREFECT OF THE POLICE,
Decree as follows:--
ARTICLE I. All meetings are rigorously prohibited. They will be
immediately dispersed by force.
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ARTICLE II. All seditious shouts, all reading in public, all posting
of political documents not emanating from a regularly constituted
authority, are equally prohibited.
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ARTICLE III. The agents of the Public Police will enforce the execution
of the present decree.
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Given at the Prefecture of Police, December 3, 1851.
DE MAUPAS, Prefect of Police.
Seen and approved,
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