Here the people live who begin the revolutions.

Whenever there is anything of that kind to be done, they are always ready.

They take as much genuine pleasure in building a barricade as they do in cutting a throat or shoving a friend into the Seine.

It is these savage-looking ruffians who storm the splendid halls of the Tuileries occasionally, and swarm into Versailles when a king is to be called to account.
But they will build no more barricades, they will break no more soldiers' heads with paving-stones.

Louis Napoleon has taken care of all that.