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In this quasi Council of State there were a goodly number of men of the
Police, a race of beings then held in esteem, Carlier, Piétri, Maupas,
etc.
Shortly after the 2d of December under the title of Mixed Commissions,
the police substituted itself for justice, drew up judgments, pronounced
sentences, violated every law judicially without the regular magistracy
interposing the slightest obstacle to this irregular magistracy: Justice
allowed the police to do what it liked with the satisfied look of a team
of horses which had just been relieved.
Some of the men inscribed on the list of this commission refused: Léon
Faucher Goulard, Mortemart, Frédéric Granier, Marchand, Maillard
Paravay, Beugnot. The newspapers received orders not to publish these
refusals.
M. Beugnot inscribed on his card: "Count Beugnot, who does not belong to
the Consultative Committee."
M. Joseph Périer went from corner to corner of the streets, pencil in
hand, scratching out his name from all the placards, saying, "I shall
take back my name wherever I find it."
General Baraguay d'Hilliers did not refuse. A brave soldier nevertheless;
he had lost an arm in the Russian war. Later on, he has been Marshall of
France; he deserved better than to have been created a Marshal by Louis
Bonaparte. It did not appear likely that he would have come to this.
During the last days of November General Baraguay d'Hilliers, seated in a
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