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"Good-morning, Cavaignac!" replied the first voice.
General Cavaignac and General Lamoricière had just recognized each
other.
A third voice was raised from a third cell. "Ah! you are there,
gentlemen. Good-morning and a pleasant journey."
He who spoke then was General Changarnier.
"Generals?" cried out a fourth voice. "I am one of you!"
The three generals recognized M. Baze. A burst of laughter came from the
four cells simultaneously.
This police-van in truth contained, and was carrying away from Paris,
the Questor Baze, and the Generals Lamoricière, Cavaignac, and
Changarnier. In the other vehicle, which was placed foremost on the
trucks, there were Colonel Charras, Generals Bedeau and Le Flô, and
Count Roger (du Nord).
At midnight these eight Representative prisoners were sleeping in their
cells at Mazas, when they heard a sudden knocking at their doors, and a
voice cried out to them, "Dress, they are coming to fetch you." "Is it to
shoot us?" cried Charras from the other side of the door. They did not
answer him. It is worth remarking that this idea came simultaneously to
all. And in truth, if we can believe what has since transpired through
the quarrels of accomplices, it appears that in the event of a sudden
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