[The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of a Crime CHAPTER XVI 6/25
Something is needed which can be placarded on a card, stuck with a wafer, and which can be read in a minute.
I will quote Article 110.
It is short and contains the appeal to arms." I resumed,-- "The Republican Representatives refer the People and the Army to Article 68 and to Article 110, which runs thus--'The Constituent Assembly confides the existing Constitution and the Laws which it consecrates to the keeping and the patriotism of all Frenchmen.' "The People henceforward and for ever in possession of universal suffrages and who need no Prince for its restitution, will know how to chastise the rebel. "Let the People do its duty.
The Republican Representatives are marching at its head. "Vive la Republique! To Arms!" They applauded. "Let us all sign," said Pelletier. "Let us try to find a printing-office without delay," said Schoelcher, "and let the proclamation be posted up immediately." "Before nightfall--the days are short," added Joigneaux. "Immediately, immediately, several copies!" called out the Representatives. Baudin, silent and rapid, had already made a second copy of the proclamation. A young man, editor of the provincial Republican journal, came out of the crowd, and declared that, if they would give him a copy at once, before two hours should elapse the Proclamation should be posted at all the street corners in Paris. I asked him,-- "What is your name ?" He answered me,-- "Milliere." Milliere.
It is in this manner that this name made its first appearance in the gloomy days of our History.
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