THE CHILDREN'S BREAKFASTS
Fr. C.
The young princes and their {Six portions, at 90 c. 5.40
tutors {Seven loaves, at 20 c. 1.40
Princesses Louise and Marie {One soup, at at 1.50
and Madame de Mallet. {Two portions 1.80
{Two loaves 0.40
Princesse Clémentine and {One soup, at 1.50
Madame Angelet {One portion, at 0.90
{Two loaves 0.40
THE CHILDREN'S BREAKFASTS--(continued)
Fr. C.
Duc de Nemours and M. {Cold meat 1.50
Larnac, who take them to {Entremet 1.50
the college {Two portions 0.80
{Two loaves 0.40
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[Extra sugar paid for separately]
Total by day, without coffee paid separately 18.50
Extra, 10 c. per portion 1.10
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19.60
25 c. Soup and entremet 1.20
11 S., 13 loaves, 4 portions
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20.80
New Tariff of Expenses--Housekeeping Establishment
For my table, the same except the suppression of the two fixed
price meals of 6 fr. and 12 fr. (18 fr. altogether), the two monthly
settlements of 1000 fr. and 150 fr. and a discharge to the contractor,
of the payment of 1010 fr. per annum for the water-carrier.
FOR MY CHILDREN'S TABLE, INCLUDING THEIR TEACHERS
Breakfast--(A special tariff kept up during my absence as well
as presence).
Fr. C.
Saucers of fruits or sweetmeats 1.0
Soup 1.80
Chicken or cold meat 1.80
Entremet of vegetables, etc 1.80
Each loaf 0.20
French rolls à la Reine 0.10
Cup of coffee, simple 0.50
Id. with cream 0.75
Tea and bread and butter 1.50
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Dinner and Supper, charged at half mine when it is served at
same time, but at the same tariff as mine when I am absent and
when it is omitted. The demi tariff is accordingly as follows:--
Fr. C.
Soup 2.50
Entrees 4.50
Roast or flank 6.0
Entremets 2.50
Plate of dessert 1.50
Bread, coffee, tea, etc., the same as at breakfast
Sugar basins table Nothing
Id. in the rooms 2.0
Extra 2 francs per head and per day in case of absence or
omission of the superior meals, for those fed in the pantry and
the kitchen.
Another Tariff of Household Expenses
For the Princes' table, the same.
FOR THE CHILDREN'S
Breakfasts Instead of
Fr.C. Fr.C.
Portions 0.90 1.0
Soups 1.25 1.80
Chicken and cold meat 1.25 do.
Entremet or vegetable, etc. 1.25 do.
French rolls 0.10
Bread, per person 0.20
Cup of coffee, simple 0.50
Id. with cream 0.75
Tea, complete 1.50
Less per dayRegular meals 18.0
Per month 37.80 60/61
Children's 48.0
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Per day 103-80
Id. 104+46
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Extra 66c.
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Dinner or Supper Fr.C.
Soups. 2.50
Entrees. 4.50
Roast or flank 6.0
Entremets. 2.50
Dishes of dessert 1.50
[Bread, coffee and tea as before]
Except when there is only the Children's table to serve, in
which case it is tariffed the same as the Princes' table.
Extra per day
Children's breakfast (without coffee) 20.80
Dinner 43.0
Supper 38.90
Water-carrier 2.76 60/61
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Extra per day 105.46
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In addition to this, in case of omission of these two tables,
the contractor receives 2 fr. per day per head both, for each
person maintained in the kitchen and in the office.
By means of this fresh tariff he is discharged from having
to pay the water-carrier; but he does not receive the fixed 12 fr.
per dinner and 6 fr. per breakfast for the Princes' table, nor the
1150 fr. per month for wood, coal and washing.
After this tariff the Children's breakfast--
Fr. C. Fr. C.
17.30+ 3.50
Fr. C. 20.80
Less 18{ 12 Their dinner 42.0 } Coffee not
{ 6 Their supper 38.90} included
And price per day
of 13,800 fr. per year, Total 98.20
37.80 Formerly 48.20
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55.80 Difference extra 50.20
Extra 56.46 Plus water-carrier 2.76
_____ _____
Bonus 0.66 Extra per day 52.96
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ACCOUNTS
13,800 {365 Extra on breakfast
_____ tariff
{37.80 60/61
Portions, 1 fr. each:
2,850 Soup, cold meat, and
2,950 entremet
300 Each 1.80 3.50
_______ 1.010 _________________________
365 Makes 56.46 per day extra
_________________________
2800 {__________
{2.76 52/61
2,450
260.52
______ 98.20
2.76
565.61 _____
______ 100.96
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[CHAPTER X]

The Duc d'Orléans goes to the Hôtel de Ville—M. Laffitte in his sedan-chair—The king sans culotte—Tardy manifestation of the Provisional Government—Odilon Barrot sleeps on a milestone—Another Balthasar Gérard—The Duc d'Orléans is received by La Fayette—A superb voice—Fresh appearance of General Dubourg—The balcony of the Hôtel de Ville—The road to Joigny

We have not yet finished the account of the events that transpired during my absence. Let me therefore be permitted to recall them: every minute, unknown detail gives us the key to an uprising and helps to explain the 5th of June, the 14th of April, or the 12th of May. Then, too, it is well to know that there were men who never did accept that government, but who resisted it for eighteen years, and succeeded in the end in overthrowing it. These men ought to be paid the justice that was their due: in spite of the calumnies, insults and trials to which they were, and are still, subjected, their contemporaries ought, indeed, to learn of their valour, courage, devotion, persistence and loyalty. True, perhaps their contemporaries will not believe me. Never mind! I shall have said it; others will believe me. Truth is one of those stars which may remain buried in the depths of the heavens for months, years, or even centuries, but which in the end, are invariably discovered some day or other. And I would rather be the madman who devotes his life to the discovery of those stars, than the wise man who hails and worships one after the other all those suns that we have seen rise, which were said to be fixed and immovable, but which proved to be nothing but transitory meteors, of some brilliancy, more or less deceptive, but always fatal in their influences!

The Duc d'Orléans, as we have seen, had already advanced a good way: he had won over the Chamber of Peers—(we have not even alluded to that conquest of his: except for the presence of Chateaubriand and Fitz-James, it was not worth the trouble of registering it, and, as is known, Chateaubriand and Fitz-James resigned);—he had won over the Chamber of Deputies; at least, ninety-one signatures attested it.

It now only remained for him to conquer the Hôtel de Ville. Oh! but that was quite another matter! The Hôtel de Ville was not the palace, spoilt by the orgies of the Directory or the proscriptions of 1815; it was not a factory where ambition and cupidity were forged, under the disguise of devotion to the various powers which succeeded one another for half a century. No, indeed; the Hôtel de Ville was the stronghold of shelter for that great popular goddess termed Revolution, during each fresh insurrection. And the spirit of Revolution again held sway there. Power had come to the Duc d'Orléans; but, before that power could be established, the duke had to come to the Revolution. Her representative was an old man, true-hearted and clean-souled, but enfeebled with age. Forty years before, when in the full tide of youth, he had been found wanting at a time of Revolution: would they find what they had vainly looked for at thirty, now he was seventy years of age?

Yes, perhaps, had he stood alone and free to exercise his own convictions; for, since the former devotion to the cause of royalty, he had thought and suffered much; he had known imprisonment and exile; his name had been uttered in every Republican conspiracy, at Béfort and Saumur; and we will describe later under what singular circumstances he escaped proscription with Dermoncourt and execution with Berton. But he was no longer a free agent. One party, the Orléanists, had circumvented him; it was, in fact, quite a siege, cleverly conceived by Laffitte and carried out by Carbonnel.