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a raise of one sou, then the bourgeois becomes terrified and cries out for strong measures . ... Most of the time, our governments have exploited this sad progress of fear . ... All I can say here is that . .. our grand Terrorists were by no means men of the people. They were bourgeois and nobles, men with cultivated, subtle, bizarre minds-sophists and scholastics." J. Michelet, Le Peuple (Paris, 1846), pp. 153-154.7 [a8a,2] Fregier, the author of Les Classes dangereuses, was head clerk at the prefecture of police. [a8a,3] On the description of the February Revolution in Flaubert's Education sentimen­ tale-which needs to be reread-one finds (with reference to Stendhal's descrip­ tion of the Battle of Waterloo):' "Nothing of the general movements, nothing of the great clashes, but rather a succession of details which can never form a whole. Tills is the model which M. Flaubert has imitated in his depiction of the events of February and June 1848; it is a model of description from the standpoint of the idler, and of politics from the standpoint of the nihilist;'].:J. Nescio, La Litterature JOUS les deux Empires, 1804-1852 (paris, 1874), . [a8a,4] Scene from the July Revolution. A woman donned men's clothing to fight alongside the others, and then afterward, as woman again, nursed the wounded who were lodged in the Stock Exchange. 'Saturday evening, the cannoneers who were transferring the artillery pieces remaining at the Bourse to the Hotel de Ville enthroned our young heroine on a cannon crowned with laurels and brought her with them. This evening, at around ten o'clock, they brought her back in triumph to the bourse by the light of torches; she was seated on an armchair decorated with garlands and laurels." C. F. Tricotel, Esquisse de quelques scenes de l'interieur de la Bourse pendant les jou .... ees des 28, 29, 30 et 31 juillet demier: Au profit des blesses (Paris, 1830), p. 9. [a9,1] Lacenaire composed an "Ode it la guillotine;' in which the criminal is celebrated in the allegorical figure of a woman, of whom it is said: "Tills woman laughed with horrible glee, / AB a crowd tearing down a throne will laugh;' The ode was written shortly before Lacenaire's execution-that is, in January 1836. Alfred Delvau, Les Lions dujour (paris, 1867), p. 8Z [a9,2] A charity supper at the Hotel de Ville, where unemployed workers-in winter, above all construction workers-gathered. The hour for the public meal has just sounded. And now Little Bluecoat hands his ivory-tipped cane to one of his assistants, takes from his buttonhole a silver place-setting which is attached there, dips the spoon into one pot after another, tastes, pays the servers, presses the outstretched hands of the poor, takes up his cane, refastens his spoon, and goes tranquilly on his way . . . . He is gone. The serving of the food begins." Little Bluecoat was the nickname of the philanthropist Edme Champion, who had risen out of very modest circumstances. The passage from Ch.-L.

Chassin, La Legende du Petit Manteau Bleu, cited in Alfred Delvau, Les Lions du jonr (Paris, 1867), p. 283. [a9,3J The author, in his pamphlet condemning the rural exodus, turns to the country girl: 'Poor, lovely child! The journeyman's tour de Prance, which is of questionable utility to your brothers, is always an evil for you. Do not-if need be, until you are forty-let go of your mother's apron strings . .. ; and should you be foolish enough to set out on your own, and should you find yourself sharing your unfurnished room with intransigent unemployment and hunger, then call (like a virgin I knew once), call a last guest to your side: CHOLERA. At least in his fleshless arms, at least on his ghastly chest, you will no longer fear for your honor." And immediately following this passage: 'You men of conscience who will read this, I implore you once more, on my hands and knees, to make known, in every way possible, the substance of this penultimate chapter." Emile Crozat, L(t Maladie du siikle, ou Les Suites funestes du declassement social: Ouvrage ecrit sous les tristes inspirations d'un avocat sans cause, d'un notaire et d'un avoue sans clientele, d'un lnedecin sans pratiques, d'un negociant sans capitaux, d'un ouvrier sans travail (Bordeaux, 1856), p. 28. [a9,4J Insurrectionist movements under Louis Philippe: I."It was then, in 1832, that the red flag appeared for the first time." Charles Seignohos, Histoire sincere de La ltatiolt.frnltaise (Paris, 1933), p. 418. [a9a,lJ

Chassin, La Legende du Petit Manteau Bleu, cited in Alfred Delvau, Les Lions du<br />

jonr (Paris, 1867), p. 283. [a9,3J<br />

<strong>The</strong> author, in his pamphlet condemning the rural exodus, turns to the country<br />

girl: 'Poor, lovely child! <strong>The</strong> journeyman's tour de Prance, which is of questionable<br />

utility to your brothers, is always an evil for you. Do not-if need be, until<br />

you are forty-let go of your mother's apron strings . .. ; and should you be foolish<br />

enough to set out on your own, and should you find yourself sharing your unfurnished<br />

room with intransigent unemployment and hunger, then call (like a virgin I<br />

knew once), call a last guest to your side: CHOLERA. At least in his fleshless arms, at<br />

least on his ghastly chest, you will no longer fear for your honor." And immediately<br />

following this passage: 'You men of conscience who will read this, I implore<br />

you once more, on my hands and knees, to make known, in every way possible, the<br />

substance of this penultimate chapter." Emile Crozat, L(t Maladie du siikle, ou<br />

Les Suites funestes du declassement social: Ouvrage ecrit sous les tristes inspirations<br />

d'un avocat sans cause, d'un notaire et d'un avoue sans clientele, d'un<br />

lnedecin sans pratiques, d'un negociant sans capitaux, d'un ouvrier sans travail<br />

(Bordeaux, 1856), p. 28. [a9,4J<br />

Insurrectionist movements under Louis Philippe: I."It was then, in 1832, that the<br />

red flag appeared for the first time." Charles Seignohos, Histoire sincere de La<br />

ltatiolt.frnltaise (Paris, 1933), p. 418. [a9a,lJ<br />

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