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When the prisons were full, M. de Maupas said "Shoot!" The fusillades at
the Prefecture took place sometimes in the courtyard, sometimes in the
Rue de Jérusalem. The unfortunate people whom they shot were placed
against the wall which bears the theatrical notices. They had chosen
this spot because it is close by the sewer-grating of the gutter, so
that the blood would run down at once, and would leave fewer traces. On
Friday, the 5th, they shot near this gutter of the Rue de Jérusalem 150
prisoners. Some one[30] said to me, "On the next day I passed by there,
they showed the spot; I dug between the paving-stones with the toe of my
boot, and I stirred up the mud. I found blood."
This expression forms the whole history of the coup d'état, and will
form the whole history of Louis Bonaparte. Stir up this mud, you will
find blood.
Let this then be known to History:--
The massacre of the boulevard had this infamous continuation, the secret
executions. The coup d'état after having been ferocious became
mysterious. It passed from impudent murder in broad day to hidden murder
at night.
Evidence abounds.
Esquiros, hidden in the Gros-Caillou, heard the fusillades on the Champ
de Mars every night.
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