His aides-de-camp--he had some already--wore, hanging from their necks, tin cases full of gold pieces.

Others came next with bags of small coins in their hands.[6] Then they threw money to the fishermen and the peasants, inviting them to cry: "Long live the Emperor!"-- "Three hundred loud-mouthed knaves will do the thing," had written one of the conspirators.[7] Louis Bonaparte approached the 42nd, quartered at Boulogne.
[6] Court of Peers, _Depositions of witnesses_, pp.

103, 185, etc.
[7] The President: Prisoner Querelles, these children that cried out, are not they the three hundred loud-mouthed knaves that you asked for in your letter ?--( Trial at Strasburg.) He said to the voltigeur Georges Koehly: "_I am Napoleon_; you shall have promotion, decorations." He said to the voltigeur Antoine Gendre: "_I am the son of Napoleon_; we are going to the Hotel du Nord to order a dinner for you and me." He said to the voltigeur Jean Meyer: "_You shall be well paid._" He said to the voltigeur Joseph Meny: "_You must come to Paris; you shall be well paid._"[8] [8] Court of Peers, _Depositions of witnesses_, pp.

142, 143, 155, 156, 158.
An officer at his side held in his hand his hat full of five-franc pieces, which he distributed among the lookers-on, saying: "_Shout, Long live the Emperor!_" The grenadier Geoffroy, in his evidence, characterises in these words the attempt made on his mess by an officer and a sergeant who were in the plot: "The sergeant had a bottle in his hand, and the officer a sabre." In these few words is the whole 2nd of December.
Let us proceed:-- "Next day, June 17, the commandant, Mesonan, who I thought had gone, entered my room, announced by my aide-de-camp.

I said to him, 'Commandant, I thought you were gone!'-- 'No, general, I am not gone.