After destroying the old parties, bring about the restoration of the people; proclaim that universal suffrage, sincere, and acting in harmony with the greatest liberty, shall name the President and the Constituent Assembly to save and restore the Republic.
"It is in the name of my brother's memory, and sharing his horror for civil war, that I now write to you; trust my long experience, and remember that France, Europe, and posterity will be called on to judge your conduct.
"Your affectionate uncle, "JEROME BONAPARTE.
* * * * "On Place de la Madeleine, the two representatives, Fabvier and Crestin, met and accosted each other.

General Fabvier directed his colleague's attention to four pieces of cannon which, turning in an opposite direction to that they had before been pursuing, left the Boulevard and galloped off towards the Elysee.

'Can it be that the Elysee is already on the defensive ?' said the general.

Crestin, pointing to the facade of the palate of the Assembly, on the other side of Place de la Revolution, replied: 'General, to-morrow we shall be there.'-- From, some garrets that look on the stables of the Elysee, three travelling carriages were observed from an early hour in the morning, loaded, with the horses put to, and the postilions in their saddles ready to start.
"The impulsion was really given, the movement of rage and hatred was becoming universal, and the _coup d'etat_ seemed to be lost; one shock more and Louis Bonaparte would fall.

Let the day but end as it had begun, and all was over.