[Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookNapoleon the Little BOOK VIII 21/44
Attempt of the 6th August, 1840, page 140, evidence of Geoffroy, grenadier. [3] Captain Col.
Puygellier, who had said to him: "You are a conspirator and a traitor." [4] Court of Peers.
Evidence of the witness Adam, Mayor of Boulogne. February arrived; he hailed the Republic, took his seat as a representative of the people in the Constituent Assembly, mounted the tribune on the 21st of September, 1848, and said: "All my life shall be devoted to strengthening the Republic;" published a manifesto which may be summed up in two lines: liberty, progress, democracy, amnesty, abolition of the decrees of proscription and banishment; was elected President by 5,500,000 votes, solemnly swore allegiance to the Constitution on the 20th of December, 1848, and on the 2nd of December, 1851, shattered that Constitution.
In the interval he had destroyed the Roman republic, and had restored in 1849 that Papacy which in 1831 he had essayed to overthrow.
He had, besides, taken nobody knows how great a share in the obscure affair of the lottery of the gold ingots. A few weeks previous to the _coup d'etat_, this bag of gold became transparent, and there was visible within it a hand greatly resembling his.
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