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As for you, remain immovable within the rules of discipline and of
honor. By your imposing attitude help the country to manifest its will
with calmness and reflection.
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Be ready to repress every attack upon the free exercise of the
sovereignty of the People.
"Soldiers, I do not speak to you of the memories which my name recalls.
They are engraven in your hearts. We are united by indissoluble ties.
Your history is mine. There is between us, in the past, a community of
glory and of misfortune.
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There will be in the future community of sentiment and of resolutions
for the repose and the greatness of France.
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Given at the Palace of the Elysée, December 2d, 1851.
(Signed) L.N. BONAPARTE."
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IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
The President of the Republic decrees:--
ARTICLE I. The National Assembly is dissolved.
ARTICLE II. Universal suffrage is re-established. The law of May 31
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