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"'I will rouse the people with my unvarnished truths; / I will prophesy on every<br />

street corner. I-Icgcsippe Moreau, dted in Jean Skerliteh, L'Opinion pllblique en<br />

France d'apres la poesie politique et sociale de 1830 (I., 1848, p. 85. [all,l]<br />

""In the days immediately following the Revolution of 1830, a song made the rounds<br />

in Paris : "Requcte d'un ouvrier a un luste-Milieu.' Its refrain was particularly<br />

expressive:<br />

I am hungry!<br />

Well, then, eat your fist.<br />

Save the other for lomorrow.<br />

And that's my refrain .<br />

. . . Barthelemy . .. says . .. that . .. the unemployed lahorer has no choice hut to<br />

work in 'the yard of upheaval.' ... In Barthelemy's Nemesis . .. the pontif Rothschild,<br />

with a multitude of the faithful, chants the 'Mass of stockjobbing,' sings the<br />

'psalm of annuity. '" Jean Skerlitch, L'Opinion publique en France<br />

poesie (Lausanne, 1901), Pl'. 97-98, 159.<br />

d'apres La<br />

[all,2]<br />

" During the day of .June 6, a search of the sewers had been ordered. It was feared<br />

that they would be used as a refuge by the vanquished. Prefect Cisquet was to<br />

ransack the hidden Paris, while General Bugeand was sweeping the public Parisa<br />

connected double operation which demanded a double strategy on the part of<br />

public power, represented ahove by the army and below by the police. Three<br />

platoons of officers and sewermen investigated the subterranean streets of Paris."<br />

Victor Hugo, Oeuvres completes, novels, vol. 9 (Paris, 1881), p. 196 (Les<br />

Miserables). '" [all,3]<br />

Refrain:<br />

Unfolding its wings of gold,<br />

Million-armed industry, exultant,<br />

Traverses our domains<br />

And seeds the nelds.<br />

<strong>The</strong> desert is peopled at the sound of its voice,<br />

<strong>The</strong> arid soil teems-<br />

And fol' the wodd's hounty<br />

1t gives the world laws. < p. 205 ><br />

All honor to us, the offspring ofimlustry!<br />

Honor, honor to our works!<br />

In all the arts we have c:onquered our rivals-<br />

And would he the hope, the pride, of our eount.ry. <br />

Cinquante Chants fraru;a.is, lyrics by various authors; set to music, with piano<br />

accompaniment, by Rouget de Lisle (Paris 1825) [Bihliotheque Nationale,<br />

Vm7.4454], p. 202 (no. 49, " Chant des industriels," 1821, text hy de Lisle). In the<br />

same volume, no. 23, "'I,a Marseillaise." [all,4]<br />

Revolutionary tactics and battles on the barricades, according to Les Misera.bles.<br />

<strong>The</strong> night hefore the harricade fighting: "<strong>The</strong> invisible police of the entente

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