28/38 The enlistment of the Amazons, notwithstanding the efforts of the Government, still continues. The pretty women keep aloof from the movement; the recruits who have already joined are so old and ugly that possibly they may act upon an enemy like the head of Medusa. This gentleman, with M.E.Picard, started, just before the siege commenced, a paper called _L'Electeur Libre_. It was thought that M.Picard's position as a member of the Government rendered it impossible for him to remain the political director of a newspaper, so he withdrew, but appointed his brother as his successor. This did not please M.Portales, who with most of the staff left the _Electeur Libre_, and founded _La Verite_. |