The History of a Crime


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"DE MORNY, Minister of the Interior."  
On another could be read,--  
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THE MINISTER OF WAR,  
By virtue of the Law on the State of Siege,  
Decrees:--  
Every person taken constructing or defending a barricade, or carrying  
arms, WILL BE SHOT.  
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General of Division,  
Minister of war,  
DE SAINT-ARNAUD."  
We reproduce this Proclamation exactly, even to the punctuation. The  
words "Will be shot" were in capital letters in the placards signed "De  
Saint-Arnaud."  
The Boulevards were thronged with an excited crowd. The agitation  
increasing in the centre reached three Arrondissements, the 6th, 7th,  
and the 12th. The district of the schools began to disorderly. The  
Students of Law and of Medicine cheered De Flotte on the Place de  
Panthéon. Madier de Montjau, ardent and eloquent, went through and  
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