The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-20

and visiby, with their magnificent LABOR Crgani-
zations and Omnibus built barricades, and orato-
ric strong words, and bayonct bloody thrusts set
of ideas about Constitutional Liberty and Right to
Property and offences civil, wider, and newer and
richer than all preached about, in all the pages OF
all these fusty Latnists?
- And threw Puffendorf, big as he was,
into the corner, and said, - will go and seer"
And he did go. If he had not gone, we should
not have had The Battle Summer-we mean the
book, and not the season, which of course came
duly with the revolution around the sun. Before
he reached the theatre Of action the earlier scenes
of the drama bad already been reformed, but he
ity Of an eyewitness. Let us take for example,
the description Of that last breakfast OF the citizen
king eaten upon royal service:
ga ROYAL BREAKFAST.
"The king is wakened by crack of musketry.
"Still Theirs is scrambling over barricades, hold
ing upon his spectacles, and saying loud the din
will let him say, me poici-I am minister.
"The national guard listen and hesitate; not SO
the throng in blouse. The republicans have been
before the miniser they who have promise of roast
S. At worst, say they, we can fall back on
such Theirs En- auant!-let US see the middle
of the palace of the king.
"And the paving stones clank on the rising wall,
| and muskets glisten along the lifting line.
''Barrot, too, earnest, honest Barrot, makes his
may in face of danger; the shopmen feel reinspred;
| the guard sympathize. But there are the bouses
pushing on; they will not stop; they will not listen;
give them confidence Onby thousands they push,
hemming closer and closer the palace walls.
| "The clock upon the tower of the Horologe
strikes ten.
"The King is at breakfast The courtly, long
faced Marie Amelie is there; the lively, fiery little
scion of the great house Of Arragon-the Princess
of Montpensier is with them; and by her side, with
| face that stormy events have made thoughtful and
care worn beyond his years, sits her handsome,
| boy faced husband.
| "A tap is heard at the door; valet announces
| the Deputy Remusat; he wishes to speak with his
| Highness of Montpensier. The King rises and the
Queen.
at is announced at last that the proclamations
are torn down; that neither Tbiers por Barrot can
| lay the storm; that cries are becoming dangerous
| ly threatening; that the people masses are hem
| ming them round.
4 " Now indeed the King trembles--not unInindful
of cert lin tenth August Measures of defence are
proposed. The old Queen is stirred: her Sicilian
blood mounts; she would shoot down the canaiile
Not SO fast, good, old Queen Amelie!
| "Litte Spanish Montpensier joins Sician age,
fire flashes from her Castlan eyes, For mo-
ment, the King wavers-then commands the car
riages. But the carriages must pass the Carousel:
and Carousel is full Of troops; they must not see
such Royal retreat;-nor imagine it.
"Then, the King takes courage again, and puts
on the grand Gordon Of the Legion of Honor and
coat rich in embroidery OF gold; 50 he passes out
and passes in front of the thousand troops who are
in the Great Court II is his last ovation-his last
grateful-sounding--Vv lie Roi.
queen H.,
skinned Princess Montpensier hears it, and her
trils snuff the battle.
, "The king is in his cabinet still wearing broad
Gordon of Legion Of Honor. Little Theirs, putting
the now halfcomfortable majesty. The prestige oi
. Theirs is gone; Barrot must be the man.
"-Eh 6ien, sof-well, said the king.
{" But even at the moment, as we have said, hon.
& est, earnest Barrot, cannot make his voice heard
. over the welkn of the blouse-cries Red banner;
are floating with impudent face.
= "Down again, from classic Pantheon new stu
e dent throngs push on This time, swords and bay
= oncts glitter and hands that yesterday Piled th
!, scalpel are chnkng gun-ocks The whole Of ST
: jacques and dirty Ia Harp is moving. The gra,
! Sorbonne shoots out from its cavernous court
e hordes of scholar truants, and they sweep,
= Pont Neuf, or under angle of sonlbre institute
2 hemming the palace, Were royalty's breakfas
q lies half eaten.
: Troops that yesterdayheld position in dstan
l, Quarters are retiring diaeartened. First comes
J. fhiers, who says-stop fhting; IL is am minis
4 ter. Then comes Barrot, who says-lt is !. Then
= Lamoriciere-not unpopuir-who says, II isl.
= :" What wonder il they ground their muskets,
i | and say-nous peTonsi
= = Meantime Republicas, slyly hiding bour.
gcois coat under blouse, not waiting, but push
o. ing the people TO wha they call peoples tri-
e umph.
:, 'Gun shots die away in istance, and all accumu.
20 late around the palace.
10 "The king is in his cainet with Theirs, and the
u queen, and Remusat, ah others. The firing ID
.r coming nearer. The proamation-the torn one
!, is under the kings hand.
: = "The door opens VIII little ceremony, and
40 there enters a mar--his face all earnest
as mess, all anxiety and yetull of calm determine
o. ton.
y, e. Sire-he says-Su lose time a half hour
!. more, and royalty in Frace is ended. They pull
down your proclamationf they will have none OF
or them.
a "The king. perplexed .urns to his councillors
no the councillors shake theiheads.
What shall be dte.-01D f1irs the
IN king.
1s "-Abdicate-ssys mile de Girardin, for he
H. was the new conner.
:, :" The king lets his p, drop: the fingers are
weak; he has sut half bnkfasted.
30 "a dreadful vollcy omusketry Is heard the
~ queen moves quick TO Il window and clasps her
\, hands.
=, Sire, Il must be-tys Montpensier.
no BE il so-says thcing.
"a "And Girardin, his ennd DONE hurried away,
10 breathing quick, pushini through dense masses,
ve laying his hand on thresning gun muzzles, say
.,v ing-the king has abdited! But who Of that
ss crowd will believe one mas voice' II is Grardih
IL says one--it must be te
:. "--It is Girardin--ys a Republcan-who
N shot Armand Carrell. will go, and for our
selves.
"A "Away flies eager, cddent Girardin; bis bus
~ tie, his sweat, his swift liking In van for by the
In time he shall have reach Rue Montmartre, and
wv be seated at his table on more, his news Of abb
" dcation will not be wortthe paper IL il printed
&c on.
h. "The king lays off therdon of the Legion Of
"a Honor.
If 'sThen the queen tur with bitterness in her
,rc facethe concentred bitness Of faded royalty
-se Of disappointed motherho-offresh wakened wife
M sympathy; and reviles ,ourtly terms the poor
II shrinking, trembling, deceless Theirs.
ma "And the great minist gnaws that under lip,
looking vacantly throughe deceving lunettes;
on and the mouth that wopen enough, and full
Uo enough, and plant TO eSs before a chamber of
re angry deputies, has no vts in il now.
no. "Thc king and queen out. Helen, Duches.
n Of Orleans, in black Of wrhood remains behind,
be her hands over her eyes.
cd "The royal pair has & out from the palace;
Il the royal breakfast half ca. France has no more
en- king"
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10 London Soct I'm 1904,