A burst of laughter from the soldiers, a little smoke, and all was over.
Is it true?
Is it possible?
Did it happen so?
Has such a thing been seen in these days?
Mon Dieu, yes; it is, in fact, extremely simple.

To cut off the head of Cicero and nail his two hands upon the rostrum, it sufficed to have a brute who has a knife, and another brute who has nails and a hammer.
The tribune was for France three things: a means of exterior initiative, a method of interior government, a source of glory.

Louis Bonaparte has suppressed the initiative.

France was the teacher of the peoples, and conquered them by love; to what end?
He has suppressed the method of government,--his own is better.

He has breathed upon the glory of France, and blown it out.