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large arm-chair before the high fireplace of the Conference Hall of the
National Assembly, was warming himself; some one, one of his colleagues,
he who is writing these lines, sat down near him on the other side of the
fireplace. They did not speak to each other, one belonging to the Right,
the other to the Left; but M. Piscatory came in, who belonged a little to
the Right and a little to the Left. He addressed himself to Baraguay
d'Hilliers: "Well, general, do you know what they are saying?"
"
"
What?"
That one of these days the President will shut the door in our faces."
General Baraguay d'Hilliers answered, and I heard the answer,--"If M.
Bonaparte should close the door of the Assembly against us, France will
fling it wide open again."
Louis Bonaparte at one moment thought of entitling this committee the
"Executive Commission." "No," said Morny to him, "that would be to
credit them with courage. They will willingly be supporters; they will
not be proscribers."
General Rulhière was dismissed for having blamed the passive obedience
of the army.
Let us here mention an incident. Some days after the 4th of December,
Emmanuel Arago met M. Dupin, who was going up the Faubourg Saint Honoré.
"
What!" said Arago, "are you going to the Elysée?"
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