Napoleon the Little

by Victor Hugo

"Article 6. The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of this decree.

"Done at the Palace of the Élysée, December 2, 1851.

"Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte."

At the same time Paris learned that fifteen of the inviolable representatives of the people had been arrested in their homes, during the night, by order of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.

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"Hear! Hear!"—Moniteur.

2 ([Return])
"Murmurs of assent."—Moniteur.