Again, during one of these pauses another voice exclaimed,-- "Romieu will be a senator." Emile Pean asked,-- "What will become of the Red Spectre ?" "He will enter the priesthood," answered Antony Thouret, "and will turn into the Black Spectre." Other exclamations which the historians of the Second of December have spread abroad were not uttered.

Thus, Marc Dufraisse never made the remark with which the men of Louis Bonaparte have wished to excuse their crimes: "If the President does not shoot all those among us who resist, he does not understand his business." For the _coup d'etat_ such a remark might be convenient; but for History it is false.
The interior of the police-vans was lighted while the Representatives were entering.

The air-holes of each compartment were not closed.

In this manner Marc Dufraisse through the aperture could see M.du Remusat in the opposite cell to his own.

M.du Remusat had entered the van coupled with M.Duvergier de Hauranne.
"Upon my word, Monsieur Marc Dufraisse," exclaimed Duvergier de Hauranne when they jostled each other in the gangway of the vehicle, "upon my word, if any one had said to me, 'You will go to Marzas in a police-van,' I should have said, 'It is improbable;' but if they had added, 'You will go with Marc Dufraisse,' I should have said, 'It is impossible!'" As soon as the vehicle was full, five or six policemen entered and stood in the gangway.