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the Provisional Goverrnnent to register you under the title of Vesuviennes. The
engagement will be for one year; to enlist, you must be between fifteen and
thirty, and unmarried. Apply at 14 Rue Sainte-Appoline, from noon to four
o'clock?' Cited in Roger Devigne, "Des 'Milicielllles' de 1937 aux 'Vesuviennes'
de 1848;' Vendredi (May 21, 1937). [V9,3]
Baudelaire, in his review of Les Martyrs ridicules, by Leon CladeI: '"The man of
intelligence molds the people, and the visionary creates reality. I have known some
poor wretches whose heads were turned by Fcrt'agus XXIII and who seriously
planned to form a secret (oalition in order to share, like a rabhle dividing up a
conquered empire, all the functions and the wealth of modern society." Baudelaire,
L'Art romantique (Paris), p. 4.34.13 [V9a,l]
Charles Proles, in Les Hommes de In revolution de 1871 , p. 9, on
Raoul Rigault, Blanquist and prefect of police during the Commune: ""In all
things, . .. even in his fanaticism, he had a remarkahle sang-froid, an indefinahle
air of the sinister and impassive mystificateur. " Cited in Georges Laronze, Ilistoire
de Ia Conunune de .l871 (Paris, 1928), p. 45. In the same text, p. 38, on Rigault's
specialty, the unmasking of police spies: "'Under the Empire, especially, he had
thrived, ... keeping his notebook up to date, denouncing, on their arrival, the
disconcerted agents. "So how are things with the boss?' And, with a sneer, he
would announce their names. Blanqui saw in such perspicacity the mark of a
serviceahle talent. He let fall from his lips, one day, this unexpected word of
praise: "He is nothing but a gamin, but he makes a first-rate policeman. '" [V9a,2]
Doctrine of the Blanquists during the Commune: ""To issue decrees for the nation
was to repudiate t.he utopia of federalism and . . . , from Paris as the ahiding
capital, to appear to govern France." Georges Laronze, Ilistoire de Ia Commu.ne
de .1871 (Paris, 1928), p. 120. [V9a,3]
The Blanquist.s venerat.ed the memory of I-I{bert. [V9a,4]
""Several editorial offices and boulevard cafes, in particular the Cafe de Suede,
were the centers . . . of conspiracy. From there, the web spread out. It encompassed
in its linkages the entire Commune, redoubtable less for the results obtained
(these were effectively nullified by the profusion of plots) t.han for the
atmosphere ... of suspicion it. produced. At the Hotel £Ie Ville, there were incessant
leaks. No deliberation, no secret deeision took place that was not immediately
known by Thiel'S." Georges Laronze, Ilistoire de Ia Commune de 1871 (Paris ,
1928), p. 383. [V9a,5]
Marx caps a detailed account of the Society of the Tenth of Decemher, as an
organization of the lumpenproletariat, with these words: ""in short, the whole,
indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French term