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dissolution of the Council of State, and declare that they only ceased
their functions when hindered by force.
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Paris, this 3d December, 1851.
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Signed: BETHMONT, VIVIEN, BUREAU DE PUZY, ED. CHARTON, CUVIER, DE
RENNEVILLE, HORACE SAY, BOULATIGNIER, GAUTIER DE RUMILLY, DE
JOUVENCEL,
DUNOYER, CARTERET, DE FRESNE, BOUCHENAY-LEFER, RIVET, BOUDET,
CORMENIN,
PONS DE L'HERAULT."
Let us relate the adventure of the Council of State.
Louis Bonaparte had driven away the Assembly by the Army, and the High
Court of Justice by the Police; he expelled the Council of State by the
porter.
On the morning of the 2d of December, at the very hour at which the
Representatives of the Right had gone from M. Daru's to the Mairie of
the Tenth Arrondissement, the Councillors of State betook themselves to
the Hotel on the Quai d'Orsay. They went in one by one.
The quay was thronged with soldiers. A regiment was bivouacking there
with their arms piled.
The Councillors of State soon numbered about thirty. They set to work to
deliberate. A draft protest was drawn up. At the moment when it was about
to be signed the porter came in, pale and stammering. He declared that he
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