Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from French Celebrities, as Seen by Their Contemporaries: A Series of Brief Biographies of the Foremost Frenchmen of Our Day
Inhabitants Of Paris! The Army Of France has come to save you. Paris is delivered. At four o'clock our soldiers took the last position Of the insurgents. To-day the struggle is terminated. Order, labor, and security will be resumed. DE macmahon.
Thus is the illustrious name Of the signer associated with the most striking episodes Of our contemporaneous national history. And there are yet other incidents, all too quickly forgotten by those who witnessed them, but which the future will resuscitate and present to the world in their own proper light. We will cite but one, which is sufficient for our present purpose. It occurred on the 25th Of February, 1858.
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