[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER XI 10/21
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It is a masterpiece of equivocal style:-- EXTRACT FROM THE REGISTRY OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. "The High Court of Justice. "According to Article 68 of the Constitution, considering that printed placards beginning with these words, 'The President of the Republic' and ending with the signatures, 'Louis Napoleon Bonaparte' and 'De Morny, Minister of the Interior,' the said placards ordaining amongst other measures the dissolution of the National Assembly, have been posted to-day on the walls of Paris, that this fact of the dissolution of the National Assembly by the President of the Republic would be of the nature to constitute the case provided for by Article 68 of the Constitution, and renders, in the terms of the aforesaid article, the meeting of the High Court indispensable. "It is declared that the High Court of Justice is organized, that it appoints[4] ...
to fulfil with it the functions of the Public Ministry; that M.Bernard, the Recorder of the Court of Cassation, should fulfil the duties of Recorder, and in order to proceed further, according to the terms of the aforesaid Article 68 of the Constitution, the Court will adjourn until to-morrow, the 3d of December, at noon. "Drawn up and discussed in the Council Chamber, where were sitting MM.
Hardouin, president, Pataille, Moreau, Delapalme, and Cauchy, judges, December 2, 1851." The two Assistants, MM.
Grandet and Quesnault, offered to sign the decree, but the President ruled that it would be more correct only to accept the signatures of the titular judges, the Assistants not being qualified when the Court was complete. In the meantime it was one o'clock, the news began to spread through the palace that a decree of deposition against Louis Bonaparte had been drawn up by a part of the Assembly; one of the judges who had gone out during the debate, brought back this rumor to his colleagues.
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