Napoleon the Little

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Victor Hugo. Napoleon the Little

BOOK I

I. December 20, 1848

II. MISSION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES

III. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF TERM

IV. MEN WILL AWAKEN

V. BIOGRAPHY

VI. PORTRAIT

VII. IN CONTINUATION OF THE PANEGYRICS

BOOK II

I. THE CONSTITUTION

II. THE SENATE

III. THE COUNCIL OF STATE AND THE CORPS LÉGISLATIF

IV. THE FINANCES

V. THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS

VI. NOVELTIES IN RESPECT TO WHAT IS LAWFUL

VII. THE ADHERENTS

VIII. MENS AGITAT MOLEM

IX. OMNIPOTENCE

X. THE TWO PROFILES OF M. BONAPARTE

XI. RECAPITULATION

BOOK III

THE CRIME

EXTRACT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED BOOK. ENTITLED THE CRIME OF THE SECOND OF DECEMBER34

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BOOK IV. THE OTHER CRIMES

I. SINISTER QUESTIONS

II. SEQUEL OF CRIMES

III. WHAT 1852 WOULD HAVE BEEN

IV. THE JACQUERIE

BOOK V. PARLIAMENTARISM

I. 1789

II. MIRABEAU

III. THE TRIBUNE

IV. THE ORATORS

V. INFLUENCE OF ORATORY

VI. WHAT AN ORATOR IS

VII. WHAT THE TRIBUNE ACCOMPLISHED

VIII. PARLIAMENTARISM

IX. THE TRIBUNE DESTROYED

BOOK VI. THE ABSOLUTION: – FIRST PHASE: THE 7,500,000 VOTES

I. THE ABSOLUTION

II. THE DILIGENCE

III. SCRUTINY OF THE VOTE. – A REMINDER OF PRINCIPLES. – FACTS

IV. WHO REALLY VOTED FOR M. BONAPARTE?

V. CONCESSION

VI. THE MORAL SIDE OF THE QUESTION

VII. AN EXPLANATION FOR M. BONAPARTE'S BENEFIT

VIII. AXIOMS

IX. WHEREIN M. BONAPARTE HAS DECEIVED HIMSELF

BOOK VII. THE ABSOLUTION: – SECOND PHASE: THE OATH

I. FOR AN OATH, AN OATH AND A HALF

II. DIFFERENCE IN PRICE

III. OATHS OF SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY MEN

IV. CURIOSITIES OF THE BUSINESS

V. THE 5TH OF APRIL, 1852

VI. EVERYWHERE THE OATH

BOOK VIII. PROGRESS CONTAINED IN THE COUP D'ÉTAT

I. THE QUANTUM OF GOOD CONTAINED IN EVIL

II. THE FOUR INSTITUTIONS THAT STAND OPPOSED TO THE REPUBLIC

III. SLOW MOVEMENT OF NORMAL PROGRESS

IV. WHAT AN ASSEMBLY WOULD HAVE DONE

V. WHAT PROVIDENCE HAS DONE

VI. WHAT THE MINISTERS, ARMY, MAGISTRACY, AND CLERGY HAVE DONE

VII. THE FORM OF THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD

CONCLUSION – PART FIRST. PETTINESS OF THE MASTER – ABJECTNESS OF THE SITUATION

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CONCLUSION – PART SECOND. FAITH AND AFFLICTION

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On Thursday, December 20, 1848, the Constituent Assembly, being in session, surrounded at that moment by an imposing display of troops, heard the report of the Representative Waldeck-Rousseau, read on behalf of the committee which had been appointed to scrutinize the votes in the election of President of the Republic; a report in which general attention had marked this phrase, which embodied its whole idea: "It is the seal of its inviolable authority which the nation, by this admirable application of the fundamental law, itself affixes on the Constitution, to render it sacred and inviolable." Amid the profound silence of the nine hundred representatives, of whom almost the entire number was assembled, the President of the National Constituent Assembly, Armaud Marrast, rose and said: —

"In the name of the French people,

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"I asked him to take a seat; I took the letter, but as I was opening it, I saw that the address was —à M. le Commandant Mésonan. I said to him: 'But, my dear Commandant, this is for you, not for me.' – 'Read it, General!' – I opened the letter and read thus: —

"I stopped here, overcome with indignation; I turned over the leaf, and I saw that the letter was signed, 'Louis Napoleon.'

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