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CHAPTER VIII.
MOUNT VALERIEN
Of the two hundred and thirty Representatives prisoners at the barracks
of the Quai d'Orsay fifty-three had been sent to Mount Valérien. They
loaded them in four police vans. Some few remained who were packed in an
omnibus. MM. Benoist d'Azy, Falloux, Piscatory, Vatimesail, were locked
in the wheeled cells, as also Eugène Sue and Esquiros. The worthy M.
Gustave de Beaumont, a great upholder of the cellular system, rode in a
cell vehicle. It is not an undesirable thing, as we have said, that the
legislator should taste of the law.
The Commandant of Mount Valérien appeared under the archway of the fort
to receive the Representative prisoners.
He at first made some show of registering them in the jailer's book.
General Oudinot, under whom he had served, rebuked him severely,--
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Do you know me?"
Yes, General."
Well then, let that suffice. Ask no more."
Yes," said Tamisier. "Ask more and salute. We are more than the Army;
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