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adds: "M. du Maupas sent to look for Victor Hugo at the house of his
brother-in-law, M. Victor Foucher, Councillor to the Court of Cassation.
He did not find him."
An old friend, a man of heart and of talent, M. Henry d'E----, had
offered me a refuge in rooms which he occupied in the Rue Richelieu;
these rooms adjoining the Théâtre Français, were on the first floor of a
house which, like M. Grévy's residence, had an exit into the Rue
Fontaine Molière.
I went there. M. Henry d'E---- being from home, his porter was awaiting
me, and handed me the key.
A candle lighted the room which I entered. There was a table near the
fire, a blotting-book, and some paper. It was past midnight, and I was
somewhat tired; but before going to bed, foreseeing that if I should
survive this adventure I should write its history, I resolved immediately
to note down some details of the state of affairs in Paris at the end of
this day, the second of the coup d'état. I wrote this page, which I
reproduce here, because it is a life-like portrayal--a sort of direct
photograph:--
"
Louis Bonaparte has invented something which he calls a 'Consultative
Committee,' and which he commissions to draw up the postscript of his
crimes.
"
Léon Foucher refuses to be in it; Montalember hesitates; Baroche
accepts.
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