Part 40 (1/2)

The Meo Victor Hugo 14250K 2022-07-19

The journey from the Northern Railway station to the Rue Laval took two hours

We arrived at Meurice's, where I a companions and Victor I went to bed at 2 o'clock

At daybreak I akened by a terrible stor

I shall take breakfast with Paul Meurice, and we shall dine together at the Hotel Navarin, in the Rue Navarin, where

PARIS, September 6--Innumerable visits, innumerable letters

Rey came to ask me whether I would consent to join a triuo, Ledru-Rollin, and Schoelcher I refused I said: ”It is alas to his mind He said: ”Do you remember that it was I who received you when you arrived at the Baudin barricade?”I replied: ”I remember the fact so well that-- And I recited the lines at the beginning of the piece (unpublished) upon the Baudin barricade:

_La barricade etait livide dans l'aurore, Et comme j'arrivais elle fumait encore

Rey me serra la main et dit: Baudin est mort_

Representative Baudin was killed on the barricade in the Faubourg Saint Antoine on Dece Louis Bonaparte's coup d'Etat

He burst into tears

September 7--Louis Blanc, d'Alton-Shee, Banville and others caht me a bouquet

September 8--I aI wrote my ”Letter to the Germans” It will be sent tomorrow

Visit from General Cluseret

At 10 o'clock I went to the office of the Rappel to correct the proofs of my ”Letter to the Germans”

Septeenerals are asking rant audiences, office-seekers are asking me for places I reply: ”I am nobody”

I saw Captain Feval, husband of fanny, the sister of AliceHe was a prisoner of war, and was released on parole