Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days.'
Henry IV. Part II. Act IV. Sc. 4.
[44] Lord Lanesborough v. Reilly.
[45] See Tocqueville's Memoirs (English trans.), ii. 189, Letter to the Times.
[46] See Maupas, Mémoires sur le Second Empire, i. 511, 512. It is said that, contrary to the orders of St.-Arnaud, the soldiers, instead of immediately shooting all persons in the street who were found with arms or constructing or defending a barricade, made many prisoners, and it is not clear what became of them. Granier de Cassagnac, however, altogether denies the executions on the Champ de Mars (ii. 433).
[47] Granier de Cassagnac, ii. 438.
[48] L'Empire Libéral, ii. 526.
[49] Mémoires d'Odilon Barrot, iv. 59-61.