256 ORIGIN OF Till WAR OF 1853 chap, other of the prisons. The newspapers, to which a ' man might run in order to know, and know truly, Newspapers w ] ia t others thought and intended, were all seized seized and o > ■stopped. an( j stopped.* TiicAssem- The mites of the Assembly were closed and blv meets: guarded, but the Deputies, who began to flock thither, found means to enter by passing through one of the official residences which formed part of the building.-f- They had assembled in the Chamber in large numbers, and some of them having caught Dupin, their reluctant President?, were forcing him to come and take the chair, when but is dis- a body of infantry burst in and drove them out, troops. >} striking some of them with the butt-ends of their muskets.}. Almost at the same time a number of Deputies who had gathered about the side- entrance of the Assembly were roughly handled and dispersed by a body of light infantry. Twelve Deputies were seized by the soldiers and carried off prisoners.§ Tiie rresi- In the course of the morning the President, ac- companied by his uncle, Jerome Bonaparte, and Count Flahault, || and attended by many general officers and a numerous staff, rode through some
- ' Annnaire,' p. 344.
+ La Y&'itc, 'Reeueil d'Actcs Qfficicls,' p. 4. £ The names of nine of these are given in the 'Kccncil,' p. 64; and besides these, the seizure of MM. Daru and De Blois is stated. Ibid. pp. 0, 7.— Note to Atii Edition, 1863. § La Vente", ' Recueil d'Actes Officiels,' p. 4. || I imagine that, before the night of the 1st of December, Count Flahault had some knowledge of what was going to be done.
