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CHAPTER X.
THE BLACK DOOR
M. Dupin is a matchless disgrace.
Later on he had his reward. It appears that he became some sort of an
Attorney-General at the Court of Appeal.
M. Dupin renders to Louis Bonaparte the service of being in his place
the meanest of men.
To continue this dismal history.
The Representatives of the Right, in their first bewilderment caused
by the coup d'état, hastened in large numbers to M. Daru, who was
Vice-President of the Assembly, and at the same time one of the
Presidents of the Pyramid Club. This Association had always supported
the policy of the Elysée, but without believing that a coup d'état
was premeditated. M. Daru lived at No. 75, Rue de Lille.
Towards ten o'clock in the morning about a hundred of these
Representatives had assembled at M. Daru's home. They resolved to
attempt to penetrate into the Hall where the Assembly held its sittings.
The Rue de Lille opens out into the Rue de Bourgogne, almost opposite
the little door by which the Palace is entered, and which is called the
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