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was executing his orders, and he enjoined them to withdraw.
Upon this several Councillors of State declared that, indignant as they
were, they could not place their signatures beside the Republican
signatures.
A means of obeying the porter.
M. Bethmont, one of the Presidents of the Council of State, offered the
use of his house. He lived in the Rue Saint-Romain. The Republican
members repaired there, and without discussion signed the protocol which
has been given above.
Some members who lived in the more distant quarters had not been able to
come to the meeting. The youngest Councillor of State, a man of firm
heart and of noble mind, M. Edouard Charton, undertook to take the
protest to his absent colleagues.
He did this, not without serious risk, on foot, not having been able to
obtain a carriage, and he was arrested by the soldiery and threatened
with being searched, which would have been highly dangerous. Nevertheless
he succeeded in reaching some of the Councillors of State. Many signed,
Pons de l'Hérault resolutely, Cormenin with a sort of fever, Boudet after
some hesitation. M. Boudet trembled, his family were alarmed, they heard
through the open window the discharge of artillery. Charton, brave and
calm, said to him, "Your friends, Vivien, Rivet, and Stourm have signed."
Boullet signed.
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