THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO
Handy Library Edition
NAPOLEON THE LITTLE
_THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO_
NAPOLEON THE LITTLE
_BOSTON_ _LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY_
_Copyright, 1909,_ By Little, Brown, and Company
CONTENTS
PAGE BOOK I
I. December 20, 1848 1
II. Mission of the Representatives 10
III. Notice of Expiration of Term 12
IV. Men Will Awaken 17
V. Biography 22
VI. Portrait 26
VII. In Continuation of the Panegyrics 35
BOOK II
I. The Constitution 46
II. The Senate 49
III. The Council of State and the Corps Legislatif 52
IV. The Finances 55
V. The Liberty of the Press 57
VI. Novelties in Respect to What Is Lawful 60
VII. The Adherents 64
VIII. Meus Agitat Molem 69
IX. Omnipotence 76
X. The Two Profiles of M. Bonaparte 81
XI. Recapitulation 86
BOOK III
The Crime 96
The Coup d'Etat at Bay 98
BOOK IV
THE OTHER CRIMES
I. Sinister Questions 150
II. Sequel of the Crimes 159
III. What 1802 Would Have Been 175
IV. The Jacquerie 180
BOOK V
PARLIAMENTARISM
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
- 2: What the Tribune Accomplished 205VIII
- 3: To render it sacred and inviolable
- 4: Retained only the oath of the President
- 5: Citizen Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
- 6: The French people are convoked in their comitia
- 7: Violation of constitutional inviolabilities
- 8: The officer who confined in the hulks the condemned men
- 9: Bonaparte's ambuscade is not an ambuscade
- 10: Sustained on the Bourse by Fould the Jew
- 11: 1840 he disembarked at Boulogne
- 12: VIPORTRAIT Louis Bonaparte is a man of middle height
- 13: Is that the 18th Brumaire was a crime
- 14: Changarnier made not a gesture
- 15: Published on January 6 in the Moniteur
- 16: Bonaparte is called Monseigneur is signed FORTOUL
- 17: Smote his breast at the recollection of Boulogne
- 18: He said to the voltigeur Georges Koehly I am Napoleon
- 19: The man whom Magnan covers with scorn
- 20: Bonaparte Louis who applied the fetters
- 21: The Corps Legislatif and the Senate
- 22: It will destroy the Corps Legislatif
- 23: Or from its own examination of the budget
- 24: The bishops and the judges of the Cour de Cassation
- 25: Rouher and Baroche clubbed their wits together
- 26: Had furbished up the word demagogue
- 27: Livy 4 says pro numine observatum
- 28: The dictatorship was fitted to be repudiated by Cincinnatus
- 29: Who created the dignity of despotes
- 30: Louis Bonaparte does not appear to have had any idea
- 31: Turgot for there is a Turgot in this affair
- 32: The sentinel of Rue Richelieu has
- 33: A catholic hypocrisy towards the clergy
- 34: You enter the house of a schoolmaster
- 35: Tu es Pietri et super hanc pietram aedificabo effigiem meam
- 36: In the language of the Duke of Alva
- 37: Whence issue all sorts of joyous sounds
- 38: Because people enjoy themselves
- 39: And however violent the outcries
- 40: They had wished for barricades
- 41: From the prefect to the minister
- 42: And the grey head of General Roguet
- 43: But left a large open space on the side toward Rue Mazagran
- 44: Laughed and shrugged their shoulders at these placards
- 45: Commanded by Colonel Rochefort
- 46: Fire was opened before the barricade languidly
- 47: Hundreds of corpses stretched upon the boulevard
- 48: From Rue Saint Denis to Rue Richelieu
- 49: And on Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere
- 50: One of them fled by Rue du Sentier
- 51: Living on Faubourg Poissonniere
- 52: ' Sergeants were heard to say ' Pitch into the Bedouins
- 53: That your ministers were in debt
- 54: The keeper of a wine shop on Rue du Sentier
- 55: The immense bivouac fires of the infantry
- 56: Especially to the Cite Bergere
- 57: The massacre of the passers by
- 58: Killed on Boulevard Montmartre
- 59: It was followed by the summary fusillades
- 60: Some gendarmes mobiles stopped him
- 61: Thou who representest humanity for humanity is reason
- 62: Multiplying the instances of abomination
- 63: Representative Miot dragged from casemate to casemate
- 64: Seventeen for the affair of Bedarieux
- 65: Charlet was innocent of that death
- 66: Charlet was removed from his prison
- 67: It is more than the complement
- 68: Bonaparte has sixteen millions a year
- 69: It is fruitful in catastrophes
- 70: That a Jacquerie had been promised
- 71: Not a drop of blood was shed at Joigny
- 72: It was this which the coup d'etat called Jacquerie
- 73: Louis Bonaparte is killing his glory
- 74: Cudgelled with a cudgel called a sceptre
- 75: The French tribune was founded
- 76: But the people do not overthrow tribunes
- 77: How many contrasting figures are there from Danton to Thiers
- 78: VIWHAT AN ORATOR IS Once mounted upon this tribune
- 79: And the French tribune creating ideas
- 80: So you mistrust parliamentarism
- 81: Let us repeat in chorus No more Parliamentarism
- 82: The brigand orders them to alight
- 83: We might cite a certain commune of the Yonne
- 84: These are axioms outside of these axioms
- 85: The republic without dictatorship
- 86: Everything is covered by a ballot
- 87: Messieurs the Church door openers
- 88: VCONCESSION And this is the ballot
- 89: And the fine palace in Faubourg Saint Honore
- 90: Troplongs flat on their bellies
- 91: Along which inevitable nature impels the brute
- 92: There are no necessary scoundrels
- 93: As there are axioms in geometry
- 94: Universal suffrage controlling itself
- 95: That Nero would not have been absolved
- 96: But the oath that one swears before the cannon's mouth
- 97: Baroche receives eighty thousand
- 98: Before the correctional judges of Evreux
- 99: Verney to the procureur of the Republic at Evreux
- 100: Is a living conscience and a watchful tribunal
- 101: Abbattucci delivered a discourse
- 102: Let us add the name of Renouard to the seven
- 103: Bonaparte do with all these oaths
- 104: The bourgeoisie were afraid of the people
- 105: Napoleon the Little is superimposed upon Napoleon the Great
- 106: To administrative centralization
- 107: Do you know what your irremovable magistrates
- 108: He drags the magistracy in the mire
- 109: These irremovable judges kiss his boot
- 110: The historian brings them to you
- 111: Timour crushed children under horses' hoofs
- 112: If he have done what Louis Bonaparte has done
- 113: There is something more heart rending than murdered child
- 114: Defied the splashing of shells
- 115: The probity which leads to inward well being
- 116: Bonaparte in his uniform of a general
- 117: A voice whispered It is Haynau
- 118: Usurpation granting amnesty to right
- 119: And to erect upon the pile a gibbet
- 120: Schwartzenberg at Milan and at Pesth
- 121: One day it accosted dead Poland
- 122: Job is still greater on his dunghill
- 123: It has already obtained the bubble of air
- 124: The enfranchisement of intellects
- 125: Of the position of certain furniture
- 126: A master who is called Louis Bonaparte