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The Red Lily

CHAPTER III
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Raised to the highest functions, loaded with honors by three kings and one emperor, he felt forever on his shoulder the hand of the Corsican.

He died a senator of Napoleon III, and left a son agitated by the same fear.
This son had married Mademoiselle Belleme, daughter of the first president of the court of Bourges, and with her the political glories of a family which gave three ministers to the moderate monarch.

The Bellemes, advocates in the time of Louis XV, elevated the Jacobin origins of the Martins.

The second Count Martin was a member of all the Assemblies until his death in 1881.

His son took without trouble his seat in the Chamber of Deputies.


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