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CHAPTER II.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE
As soon as it was daylight we had assembled in the house of our
imprisoned colleague, M. Grévy. We had been installed in his private
room. Michel de Bourges and myself were seated near the fireplace; Jules
Favre and Carnot were writing, the one at a table near the window, the
other at a high desk. The Left had invested us with discretionary
powers. It became more and more impossible at every moment to meet
together again in session. We drew up in its name and remitted to
Hingray, so that he might print it immediately, the following decree,
compiled on the spur of the moment by Jules Favre:--
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FRENCH REPUBLIC.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
The undersigned Representatives of the People who still remain at
liberty, having met together in an Extraordinary Permanent Session,
considering the arrest of the majority of their colleagues, considering
the urgency of the moment;
"Seeing that the crime of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in violently
abolishing the operations of the Public Powers has reinstated the
Nation in the direct exercise of its sovereignty, and that all which
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