Part 36 (1/2)

November 1848

On Noveival

There were present MM de Remusat, de Tocqueville, Girardin, Leon Faucher, a ly but witty and has beautiful teeth, Mme Odilon Barrot and her mother

Towards the middle of the dinner Louis Bonaparte arrived with his cousin, the son of Jerome, and M Abbatucci, Representative

Louis Bonaparte is distinguished, cold, gentle, intelligent, with a certain nity, a German air and black moustache; he bears no resemblance whatever to the Ehed little, although the party was a merry one

Mlishht

M de Remusat, as seated between the prince and h for Louis Bonaparte to hear:

”I give nac”

Louis Bonaparte at the tieons

II HIS ELEVATION TO THE PRESIDENCY December 1848

The proclamation of Louis Bonaparte as President of the Republic was made on December 20

The weather, which up to then had been ad than of the beginning of winter, suddenly changed December 20 was the first cold day of the year Popular superstition had it that the sun of Austerlitz was beco clouded

This proclamation was made in a somewhat unexpected manner It had been announced for Friday It was made suddenly on Wednesday

Towards 3 o'clock the approaches to the asseiment of infantry was oons was echeloned along the quay The troopers shi+vered and looked reat uneasiness, not knohat it all uely spoken of The faubourgs, it was said, were to turn out andlive the Emperor!” The day before the Funds had dropped 3 francs Napoleon Bonaparte, greatly alarmed, came to see me

The asseroups rather than a parlia the publicity of the sessions and substituting the State Printing Office, the for office of the ”Moniteur,” was being discussed, but no one listened M Bureau de Puzy, the questor, was speaking

Suddenly there was a stir in the asse invaded by a crowd of Deputies who entered by the door on the left It was the co to announce the result of the election to the Presidency It was 4 o'clock, the chandeliers were lighted, there was an ialleries, all the nac, cal any decoration, was in his place He kept his right hand thrust in the breast of his buttoned frock-coat, and made no reply to M Bastide, who now and then whispered in his ear

M Fayet, Bishop of Orleans, occupied a chair in front of the General

Which prores, the Abbe Parisis, to re, not a bishop”

Lamartine was absent

The _rapporteur_ of the committee, M Waldeck-Rousseau, read a cold discourse that was coldly listened to When he reached the enumeration of the votes cast, and caht burst into a laugh A eance, sarcasm of the unpopular nac took leave in a few brief and dignified words, which were applauded by the whole assened in a body, and that he, Cavaignac, laid down the power He thanked the assembly with emotion A few Representatives wept

Then President Marrast proclaimed ”the citizen Louis Bonaparte”

President of the Republic

A few Representatives about the bench where Louis Bonaparte sat applauded The relacial silence