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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER III
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At the clubs every evening the Government is denounced for refusing to admit into its ranks this or that patriot, or adjourning the municipal elections, and for not sending revolutionary agents into the provinces.

A newspaper this morning makes the excellent suggestion that M.Blanqui, M.F.Pyat, and their principal adherents should be invited to proceed at once to the provinces in a balloon, invested with the rank of Government agents.

"They cannot," it adds, "do so much harm there as they are doing here; and then, too, the balloon may burst." Personally, I should be glad to see a moderate Republic established here, for I regard a Court as a waste of public money; but it seems to me that Republicans should remember that it is for the nation, and not for them, to decide what shall henceforward be the form of government..


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