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Napoleon the Little

BOOK IV
10/39

Rejected by death, he was reclaimed by Louis Bonaparte.

This man is now at Lambessa.
What the Champ-de-Mars secretly witnessed,--the terrible night tragedies which dismayed and dishonoured it,--history cannot yet reveal.

Thanks to Louis Bonaparte, this revered field of the Federation may in future be called Aceldama.

One of the unhappy soldiers whom the man of the 2nd of December transformed into executioners, relates with horror, and beneath his breath, that in a single night the number of people shot was not less than eight hundred.
Louis Bonaparte hastened to dig a grave and threw in his crime.

A few shovelfuls of earth, a sprinkling of holy water by a priest, and all was said.


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