As for us, it is a question which we pledge ourselves to examine and explore hereafter.
On the first day, Louis Bonaparte made a display of his slaughter.

We have told the reason why.

It suited his purpose.

After that, having derived from the deed all the required advantage, he concealed it.
Orders were given to the Elysean journals to be silent, to Magnan to omit, to the historiographers to know nothing.

They buried the slain after midnight, without lights, without processions, without prayers, without priests, by stealth.