As yet, Ledru-Rollin is the only known politician who avowedly favours it.

The Government is, I believe, divided upon the expediency of holding the elections at once, or rather I should say, upon the possibility of putting them off without provoking disturbances.
I am inclined to think that, as is usually the case, the Moderates will yield on this point to their Ultra colleagues.

Very possibly they may think that, if ever a capitulation becomes necessary, it will be as well to make the nominees of the Faubourgs share in the responsibility.

As Jules Favre said of Rochefort, they are perhaps safer in the Government than outside of it.
The column of the Place Vendome is daily bombarded by indignant patriots, who demand that it should be razed to the ground, and the metal of which it is composed be melted down into cannon.

The statue of Napoleon I., in the cocked hat and great-coat, which used to be on its summit, was removed a few years ago to a pedestal at the end of the Avenue de la Grande Armee.