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complements, as each battery should be composed of four pieces and two
mortars. He had expressly ordered that only pieces of eight, and mortars
of sixteen centimètres in diameter should be employed.
"In truth," Morny, who was in the secret, had said, "all this apparatus
will have work to do."
Then Morny had spoken of Mazas, that there were 600 men of the
Republican Guards in the courtyard, all picked men, and who when
attacked would defend themselves to the bitter end; that the soldiers
received the arrested Representatives with shouts of laughter, and that
they had gone so far as to stare Thiers in the face; that the officers
kept the soldiers at a distance, but with discretion and with a "species
of respect;" that three prisoners were kept in solitary confinement,
Greppo, Nadaud, and a member of the Socialist Committee, Arsène Meunier.
This last named occupied No. 32 of the Sixth Division. Adjoining, in No.
3
0, there was a Representative of the Right, who sobbed and cried
unceasingly. This made Arsène Meunier laugh, and this made Louis
Bonaparte laugh.
Another detail. When the fiacre bringing M. Baze was entering the
courtyard of Mazas, it had struck against the gate, and the lamp of the
fiacre had fallen to the ground and been broken to pieces. The
coachman, dismayed at the damage, bewailed it. "Who will pay for this?"
exclaimed he. One of the police agents, who was in the carriage with the
arrested Questor, had said to the driver, "Don't be uneasy, speak to the
Brigadier. In matters such as this, where there is a breakage, it is
the Government which pays."
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