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Posted: Sun 7:53, 03 Apr 2011 Post subject: Breguet Watches |
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an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its ebullition.The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and stormy.The government was there purely and simply called in question. There people publicly discussed the question of fighting or of keeping quiet. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have sworn,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!"Sometimes they went up stairs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to a private room on the first floor,and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the initiated take oaths to render service to himself as well as to the fathers of families. That was the formula.In the tap-rooms,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "subversive" pamphlets were read. They treated the government with contempt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], says a secret report of that time.Words like the following could be heard there: --"I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot."Another said: "I don't ask for six
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