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BETWEEN THE CZAR AXD THE SULTAN. 333 freedom ; they laid open her purse, and were rich chap. with her wealth. They went and sat in the seats L_ of Kings and Statesmen, and handled the mighty EivseTmade nation as they willed in the face of Europe. ofFiance - Those who hated freedom, and those also who bore ill - will towards the Trench people, made merry with what they saw. XXI. These are the things which Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte did. What he had sworn to do was set forth in the oath which he took on the 20th of December 1848. On that day he stood before the National Assembly, and, lifting his right arm towards heaven, thus swore : — ' In The oath c /~i i t i /> ,, -p , which the ' the presence ot bod, and before the French President . , T had taken. ' people represented by the National Assembly, 1 ' swear to remain faithful to the democratic Ee- ' public one and indivisible, and to fulfil all the ' duties which the Constitution imposes upon me.' What he had pledged his honour to do was set forth in the promise, which of his own free will he addressed to the Assembly. Reading from a paper which he had prepared, he uttered these words: — 'The votes of the nation, and the oath ins added • i t ■ i i o promise ;<a 'which I have nist taken, command my future a «manof J . ' honour." ' conduct. My duty is clear ; 1 will fulfil it as a ' man of honour. I shall regard as enemies of ' the country all those who endeavour to change ' by illegal means that which all France haa 1 established.'