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fi'o.ubourien: JOltrno.l de 10. cwwille, cited in Curiosites revolutionno.i,·es: Les
]ollrno.ux rouges, by a Girondist (Paris 1848) p. 26. [a7a,2)
Theory of A. Granier de Cassagnac, Histoire des clo.sses olwrieres et des clo.sses
bourgeoises (Paris, 1838): the proletarians were descended from thieves and prostitutes.
[a7a,3)
" Believe me the wine of the barrie res has preserved the governmental framework
from many a shock." Edouard Foucaud, Po.ris hwenteur: Physiologie de l'industriefranqaise
(Paris, 18,t4), p. 10. [a7a,4)
Charras, from the Ecole Poly technique, with reference to General Lobau, who
had not wished to sign a proclmnation: "'I will have him shot. '-'What are you
thinking of?' demanded M. Mauguin, incensed. "Have General Lobau shot! A
member of the Provisional Government!'-"The very same,' responded the student,
while leading the deputy to the window and showing him a hundred men
outside, veterans of the fighting at the barracks in the Babylone district.6 "And
were 1 to order these brave men to shoot the Lord God, they would do it! '"
G. Pinet, Ristoire de l'Eeole polyteehni,!ue (Paris, 1887), p. 158 [evidently a literal
citation from Louis Blanc]. [a7a,5]
Leon Guillemin: "'There are two sorts of providence, God and the Ecole
Poly technique. If one should be found wanting, the other will be there." In
G. Pinet, p. 161. [a7a,6J
Lamennais and Proudhon wanted to he huried in a mass grave (Delvau, Heures
parisiennes , Pl'. 50-51). [a7a,7J
Scene from the Fehruary Revolution. The Tuileries were plundered. "Nevertheless,
the crowd had stopped, as a sign of respect, in front of the chapel. A student
took advantage of this moment to steal the sacred vessels, and in the evening he
had them taken to the EgHse Saint-Roell. He chose to carry hy himself, the magnificent
sculpted Christ that found a place on the altar; a group of people followed
quietly in his steps, their hats removed and heads howed. This scene . . . was
reproduced on a stamp that could he seen, for a long time afterward, in the
windows of all the merchants who sell religious icons. The Poly technician was
represented holding the Christ in his arms, displaying it hefore a kneeling crowd,
while he exclaimed: "Here is the master of us all!' These words were not actually
spoken, hut they conform to the sentiments of the population at a time when . ..
the clergy itself, persecuted hy the Voltairean king, greeted the revolution with
enthusiasm." G. Pinet, Histoire de l'Ecole poly technique (Paris, 1887), pp. 245-
246. [a8,lJ
The Poly technicians "observed the proceedings of the Blanquist club that: met in a
hall on the ground floor where demagogic orators, agitating for the most sinister of