De Salis (of the Moselle). 
  Sapey (of the Isere). 
  Schneider, ex-Minister. 
  De Segur d’Aguesseau (of the Hautes-Pyrenees). 
  Seydoux (of the Nord). 
  Amedee Thayer. 
  Thieullen (of the Cotes-du-Nord). 
  De Thorigny, ex-Minister. 
  Toupot de Beveaux (of the Haute-Marne). 
  Tourangin, ex-Prefect.  Troplong, First President of the Court of
      Appeal. 
  De Turgot, Minister for Foreign Affairs. 
  Vaillant, Marshal of France. 
  Vaisse, ex-Minister (of the Nord). 
  De Vandeul (of the Haute-Marne). 
  General Vast-Vimeux (of the Charente-Inferieure). 
  Vauchelle, Mayor of Versailles. 
  Viard (of the Meurthe). 
  Vieillard (of the Manche). 
  Vuillefroy. 
  Vuitry, Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Finance De Wagram.

  “The President of the Republic,

  “LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

  “Minister of the Interior, DE MORNY.”

The name of Bourbousson is found on this list.

It would be a pity if this name were lost.

At the same time as this placard appeared the protest of M. Daru, as follows:—­

  “I approve of the proceedings of the National Assembly at the Mairie
  of the Tenth Arrondissement on the 2d of December, 1851, in which I was
  hindered from participating by force.

  “DARU.”

Some of these members of the Consultative Committee came from Mazas or from Mount Valerien.  They had been detained in a cell for four-and-twenty hours, and then released.  It may be seen that these legislators bore little malice to the man who had made them undergo this disagreeable taste of the law.

Many of the personages comprised in this menagerie possessed no other renown but the outcry caused by their debts, clamoring around them.  Such a one had been twice declared bankrupt, but this extenuating circumstance was added, “not under his own name:”  Another who belonged to a literary or scientific circle was reputed to have sold his vote.  A third, who was handsome, elegant, fashionable, dandified, polished, gilded, embroidered, owed his prosperity to a connection which indicated a filthiness of soul.

Such people as these gave their adherence with little hesitation to the deed which “saved society.”

Some others, amongst those who composed this mosaic, possessed no political enthusiasm, and merely consented to figure in this list in order to keep their situations and their salaries; they were under the Empire what they had been before the Empire, neuters, and during the nineteen years of the reign, they continued to exercise their military, judicial, or administrative functions unobtrusively, surrounded with the right and proper respect due to inoffensive idiots.

Others were genuine politicians, belonging to that learned school which begins with Guizot, and does not finish with Parieu, grave physicians of social order, who reassure the frightened middle-classes, and who preserve dead things.