The fourth packet, the smallest, was opened; it contained only 100,000 francs, which were distributed to the aides-de-camp, the employés and servants. I confess to having received as my share, from de Persigny's hands, the sum of 2,500 francs. Paris, which had gone to bed a Republic, woke up an Empire! But an Empire which had violated Oath, Constitution, Universal Suffrage, Laws, etc.; which had arrested, imprisoned, transported, or exiled one-half of France. The other half either gagged or in a state of siege.

All the Deputies who had been watched for days past were either at Mazas or Fort Ham.

Towards ten o'clock the majority of the representatives of the Orleanist party had gathered at their usual place. They had proclaimed the fall of the President, appointed a Provisory Government, and a Commander-in-Chief of the Public Forces. A brigade of police, with a company of Vincennes Infantry, invaded the hall, arrested all the members, and took them at the point of the bayonet to the Bonaparte Barracks, Quai, St. Orsay.

Some other meetings which took place shared the same fate. All the newspapers were stopped.

The printing houses of the Republican papers were searched. That night Prince Napoleon left the Elysée and crossed Paris by the quays as far as

the Town Hall. Then, passing through the Boulevards de la Bastille as far as the Madeleine, he was met everywhere by cries of: "Long live the Republic!" During the night of the 2nd, barricades went up as if by enchantment in the populous quarters-the Faubourgs Saint-Antoine, SaintDenis, Saint-Martin, Rue Grenetat. Some of them were formidable.

At break of day Baudin, Deputy for Paris, presented himself at the barricade in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and showing his representative's scarf, ordered the sentinel to let him pass. A bullet in the breast was the answer.

This shot was the signal for the carnage to begin.

At the Elysée the horses were saddled and harnessed. The postillions were in the saddle. The remainder of the fifty millions which had been taken from the Bank were watched over by General Roquet, who was ready to cross the frontier. Flying columns crossed the capital in every direction, sowing death and terror. Everything was in motion. The great Captain's nephew alone was quietly seated in his study, smoking a cigar. And when, at intervals, some Staff-Officer appeared to tell him that such and such a barricade was impregnable he invariably answered

"Execute my orders!"

His orders were to raze Paris rather than to imitate Charles X. and Louis Philippe.

The French, at fifty years interval, have seen and borne two Napoleons. The first, on the 2nd of December, 1802, broke up the Coalition at Austerlitz, and said to his soldiers

"I am pleased with you."

The second, on the 2nd December, 1851, broke up the Press, killed liberty, cut the throats of women and children in Paris, and said to his generals

"Burn the capital!"

A great poet said

"Des deux Napoléon les gloires sont égales,

Fort bien chacun le sait; ce ne sont faits nouveaux :

D'Europe le premier prenait les capitales;

Le second aux Français prenait leurs capitaux!"

If these verses do not contain everything, it is impossible better to describe the actions of the two Napoleons.

CHAPTER XVII.

COMTE DE GLAVES.

THIS young Count was also a Spaniard. In 1848 he lived at No. 20, Rue de la Madeleine. Being a grandee and very rich, he lived well, having a box at the Opera and the Italiens; he was one of the lions of the Jockey Club. His house, which was elegantly furnished, was the rendezvous of the cream of French aristocracy. Monsieur de Glimes, Madame de Montijo, and the future Empress were his very assiduous visitors.

The gossips of the quarter declare that the young Duchess de Theba often went there.

Some time after the Imperial wedding, while leading a quadrille, the noble Castilian slipped and fell on the Tuileries floor, and fractured his left leg. The music stopped at once, and the dancers ceased. The Empress hastened to the injured man, and, with a burst of kindness, insisted upon having an

apartment prepared for him in the palace of the Kings of France.

One evening Napoleon went to the Empress's apartment. She was not there. Returning to his own room the Emperor passed the sick man's apartments, whence issued joyous bursts of laughter.

Two hours later a police agent took possession of de Glaves, crippled as he was, and conducted him to the Spanish frontier. He hinted to him that the French empire was from that time forth closed to him.

Some years ago the Empress of the French thought she would like once more to see the house in which the Duchess de Theba had passed her youth. There, one reception day, the former Tuileries dancer (Count de Glaves) tried to introduce himself. But Count de Lagrange (by order of his master) forbade him to enter.

Next morning the Spanish newspapers announced that the Chamberlain Lagrange had said

"If you pass the door I have orders to blow your brains out!"