black
ones for acquittal. There were 199 votes cast, 65 white, 134 black.
In placing my black ball in the urn I remarked: "In blackening him we
whiten him."

* Emile de Girardin had been prosecuted for publishing an
article in a newspaper violently attacking the government.

I said to Mme. D--: "Why do not the Minister and Girardin provoke a
trial in the Assize Court?"

She replied: "Because Girardin does not feel himself strong enough, and
the Minister does not feel himself pure enough."

MM. de Montalivet and Mole and the peers of the Chateau voted, queerly
enough, for Girardin against the Government. M. Guizot learned the
result in the Chamber of Deputies and looked exceedingly wrath.

June 28, 1847.

On arriving at the Chamber I found Franck-Carre greatly scandalised.

In his hand was a prospectus for champagne signed by the Count de
Mareuil, and stamped with a peer's mantle and a count's coronet with the
de Mareuil arms. He had shown it to the Chancellor, who had replied: "I
can do nothing!"

"I could do something, though, if a mere councillor were to do a thing
like that in my court," said Franck-Carre to me. "I would call the
Chambers together and have him admonished in a disciplinary manner."

1848.

Discussion by the committees of the Chamber of Peers of the address in
reply to the speech from the throne.

I was a member of the fourth committee. Among other changes I demanded
this. There was: "Our princes, your well-beloved children, are doing in
Africa the duties of servants of the State." I proposed: "The princes,
your well-beloved children, are doing," etc., "their duty as servants of
the State." This fooling produced the effect of a fierce opposition.

January 14, 1848.

The Chamber of Peers prevented Alton-Shee from pronouncing in the
tribune even the name of the Convention. There was a terrific knocking
upon desks with paper-knives and shouts of "Order! Order!" and he was
compelled almost by force to descend from the tribune.

I was on the point of shouting to them: "You are imitating a session of
the Convention, but only with wooden knives!"

I was restrained by the thought that this _mot_, uttered during their
anger, would never be forgiven. For myself I care little, but it might
affect the calm truths which I may have to tell them and get them to
accept later on.

THE REVOLUTION OF 1848.

I. THE DAYS OF FEBRUARY.
II. EXPULSION