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Victor Hugo. Napoleon the Little
Napoleon the Little
Table of Contents
BOOK I
BOOK II
BOOK III
EXTRACT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED BOOK. ENTITLED. THE CRIME OF THE SECOND OF DECEMBER[1]
BOOK IV
THE OTHER CRIMES
BOOK V
PARLIAMENTARISM
BOOK VI
THE ABSOLUTION:—FIRST PHASE: THE 7,500,000 VOTES
BOOK VII
THE ABSOLUTION:—SECOND PHASE: THE OATH
BOOK VIII
PROGRESS CONTAINED IN THE COUP D'ÉTAT
CONCLUSION—PART FIRST
PETTINESS OF THE MASTER—ABJECTNESS OF THE SITUATION
CONCLUSION—PART SECOND
FAITH AND AFFLICTION
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Victor Hugo
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The present book has for its sole aim to arouse the sleepers. France must not even adhere to this government with the assent of lethargy; at certain hours, in certain places, under certain shadows, to sleep is to die.
Let us add that at this moment, France—strange to say, but none the less true—knows not what took place on the 2nd of December and subsequently, or knows it imperfectly; and this is her excuse. However, thanks to several generous and courageous publications, the facts are beginning to creep out. This book is intended to bring some of those facts forward, and, if it please God, to present them in their true light. It is important that people should know who and what this M. Bonaparte is. At the present moment, thanks to the suppression of the platform, thanks to the suppression of the press, thanks to the suppression of speech, of liberty, and of truth—a suppression which has had for one result the permitting M. Bonaparte to do everything, but which has had at the same time the effect of nullifying all his measures without exception, including the indescribable ballot of the 20th of December—thanks, we say, to this stifling of all complaints and of all light, no man, no fact wears its true aspect or bears its true name. M. Bonaparte's crime is not a crime, it is called a necessity; M. Bonaparte's ambuscade is not an ambuscade, it is called a defence of public order; M. Bonaparte's robberies are not robberies, they are called measures of state; M. Bonaparte's murders are not murders, they are called public safety; M. Bonaparte's accomplices are not malefactors, they are called magistrates, senators, and councillors of state; M. Bonaparte's adversaries are not the soldiers of the law and of right, they are called Jacquerie, demagogues, communists. In the eyes of France, in the eyes of Europe, the 2nd of December is still masked. This book is a hand issuing from the darkness, and tearing that mask away.
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