5/24 The people deceived, and moreover disarmed. The telegraph at their command. All the walls covered with their placards, and at our disposal not a single printing case, not one sheet of paper. No means of raising the protest, no means of beginning the combat. The _coup d'etat_ was clad with mail, the Republic was naked; the _coup d'etat_ had a speaking trumpet, the Republic wore a gag. |