CONTENTS

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BOOK I

  1. December 20, 1848[1 ]
  2. Mission of the Representatives[10 ]
  3. Notice of Expiration of Term[12 ]
  4. Men Will Awaken[17 ]
  5. Biography[22 ]
  6. Portrait[26 ]
  7. In Continuation of the Panegyrics[35 ]

BOOK II

  1. The Constitution[46 ]
  2. The Senate[49 ]
  3. The Council of State and the Corps Législatif[52 ]
  4. The Finances[55 ]
  5. The Liberty of the Press[57 ]
  6. Novelties in Respect to What Is Lawful[60 ]
  7. The Adherents[64 ]
  8. Meus Agitat Molem[69 ]
  9. Omnipotence[76 ]
  10. The Two Profiles of M. Bonaparte[81 ]
  11. Recapitulation[86 ]

BOOK III

  1. The Crime[96 ]
  2. The Coup d'État at Bay[98 ]

BOOK IV
The Other Crimes

  1. Sinister Questions[150 ]
  2. Sequel of the Crimes[159 ]
  3. What 1802 Would Have Been[175 ]
  4. The Jacquerie[180 ]

BOOK V
Parliamentarism

  1. 1789[189 ]
  2. Mirabeau[191 ]
  3. The Tribune[193 ]
  4. The Orators[196 ]
  5. Influence of Oratory[201 ]
  6. What an Orator Is[203 ]
  7. What the Tribune Accomplished[205 ]
  8. Parliamentarism[208 ]
  9. The Tribune Destroyed[211 ]

BOOK VI
The Absolution: First Phase

  1. The Absolution[214 ]
  2. The Diligence[215 ]
  3. Scrutiny of the Vote.—A Reminder
    of Principles.—Facts[217 ]
  4. Who Really Voted for M. Bonaparte[229 ]
  5. Concession[232 ]
  6. The Moral Side of the Question[234 ]
  7. An Explanation for M. Bonaparte's Benefit[238 ]
  8. Axioms[244 ]
  9. Wherein M. Bonaparte Has Deceived Himself[246 ]

BOOK VII
The Absolution: Second Phase: The Oath

  1. For an Oath, an Oath and a Half[251 ]
  2. Difference in Price[255 ]
  3. Oaths of Scientific and Literary Men[258 ]
  4. Curiosities of the Business[261 ]
  5. The 5th of April, 1852[266 ]
  6. Everywhere the Oath[272 ]

BOOK VIII
Progress Contained in the Coup D'État

  1. The Quantum of Good Contained in Evil[275 ]
  2. The Four Institutions That Stand Opposed to the Republic[280 ]
  3. Slow Movement of Normal Progress[282 ]
  4. What an Assembly Would Have Done[285 ]
  5. What Providence Has Done[289 ]
  6. What the Ministers, Army, Magistracy, and Clergy Have Done[291 ]
  7. The Form of the Government of God[292 ]

CONCLUSION—PART FIRST
Pettiness of the Master—Abjectness of the Situation

  1. [ 293 ]
  2. [ 298 ]
  3. [ 301 ]

CONCLUSION—PART SECOND
Faith and Affliction

  1. [ 315 ]
  2. [ 323 ]