Sketches of Paris and the Parisians
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (9781150596667)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Ward and Lock Subjects: Paris (France) History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. COMING EVENTS -- GENERAL CAVAIGNAC -- A PRACTICAL JOKE -- POST- OFFICE LEGEND -- SIR A WBERRIES AND UMBRELLAS. June 9th, 1851. The week just elapsed affords a fair instance of how much may be done in seven days, even if the first chapter of Genesis were reckoned among the Apocrypha. On the 1st of June, the President, at a celebration in the mustard-growing town of Dijon, expressed his hopes that a favorable welcome would be extended to the petitions for revision, and on the 7th day of the same month the Assembly, met for the purpose, turned them the coldest of shoulders. Having voted that all propositions tending to the revision of the constitution should be referred to a special committee, and that the house would debate no such proposition which had not previously undergone the ordeal of this committee's examination, the next step was to elect the members who should compose it. The Assembly, consisting of 750 delegates, is divided into fifteen bureaux of about fifty persons each. These bureaux, after hearing professions de foi from their prominent members, and discussing the pros and cons of the subject in hand, have elected, each one, a representative. The fifteen thus chosen, form the special committee. In this there are nine advocates of revision, and six opponents. But those in favour are not perfectly harmonious in their opinions. Out of the nine, there are but three who can be said to be Revisionists in behalf of the election of Napoleon. The others are Legitimists, o...

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