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Show B FRENCH LCVC OF SHOW. H JVVell lllustrred vly Inclrfcyit of tha' ( CarlRepullIc?. f J Albort Vandnru, a Frcnchs writer, H tolls this alary 'of tbp early daya o( HHJ tho Fronch ropubflc,"''whIcii followed HHJ iho downfall of Louis Napoleon: "Ono HHJ day tlioro en mo to Tour a hundred HHJ TolunteorB from the south, wearing HHJ enormously broad-Arlmmod felt hats HHJ And dressed In snblo garmontB all HHi ovor. They looked llko funeral mutea, HHi , and thoy were evidently determined HHj ' to act up to their appoaraucc, for, HHJ wondrous to relate, tl.ey marched HHJ through the principal streets without HHJ opening tholr lips a proceeding somo- HHJ Trbat different from that of tho rest. HHJ An a raattor of courso, tho crowd HHJ -was tragically Impressed. Tho Impres- HHJ fllon, howovor, did not last long. Tho HHJ volunteers felt thirsty, and their chief, HHJ -irho woro a still moro onormous hat HHJ than h!n men, slgnalod to thorn in tha HHJ middle of tho Ruo Iloyalo to halt foi HHJ rofroshmont. That spoilt tho whola HHJ tragic part of tho business, for when HHJ tboso southerners had oponed theli HHJ mouths thoro was a difficulty of clos- HHJ tag them again. The moment drink HHJ was In spoech was out. Thoy In- M formed tholr admirers' that thoy had HHJ como from tho department of Qor HHJ and that thoy had mado a torrlbli H pact. A hundrod and ono, including HHJ their leador, thoy bad started from HHJ their homos; a hundrod, and ono thoy HHJ -would return. It o'nO of thorn wai HHJ Irtllod tho whoio would perish In tholi HHJ fforts to avehgo him." |