| Show BEFORE HIS HOUR OF GLORY attitude of the youthful napoleon on that memorable june day in french history while we were spending our time simein in a rather vagabond manner the twentieth of june arrived we met by appointment at a restaurateurs urs in the rue rne st honors honore near the royal to take one ot of our dally daily rambles on going out we VB saw a mob approaching pro aching in the direction of the market which bonaparte estimated at five or six thousand men they were a rabble of 0 blackguards black guards ludicrously armed with weapons of 0 every description and shouted while they proceed sit ed rapidly toward tile the Tuil T tuileries ull erles eries vacit aerating all kinds of gr gross oes abuse abuse it was a collection of 0 all that was vilest viles t in the purlieus purlie us of parts paris let us follow the mob said bonaparts bonaparte we got the start of them and took up our station on the terrace along the river it was there that he witnessed the scandalous loua scenes which took place and it would be difficult to describe the surprise and YV which lit h they 9 excited too la him when ula kan king showed himself a al ahe a windows the garden with the jed va cap P wh tchon q of 11 the ali rp ipox ila had 0 pt f an U his s head he is dai could no longer repress hs file indignation what stupid stupidity ityl he be loudly exclaimed why have they let in all that rabble they should knock off or of them with the cannon the rest would take them selves off fast enough when we sat down to dinner which I 1 paid for as I 1 generally did tor for I 1 was the richer of the two he spoke of noth ing but the scene we had witnessed lie he discussed with great good sense the causes and consequences of this unrepressed Ir ossed insurrection lie he foresaw and developed with sagacity all that would follow ile he was not mistaken memoirs of napoleon bonaparte Dona parte louis antoine Fau do bourrienne |
