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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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October of1869, a great gathering was announcedto take place on the Place de la Con-corde. But the cavalry and infantrywere set in motion, and few people likedto run the risk of arrest, so that the mani-festation was all made by one vapor-ing, crazy, old man, who had long been EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 133 a familiar sight in Paris, and who ha-rangued the Obelisk of Luxor concerningthings in general, but was not so crazythat he undertook to attack the Empire.The creation of the Marseillaise, liyRochefort, in December of 1869, wasscoffed at by the supporters of theEmpire, but it proved to be a power-ful agent in hastening the downfall of great Communal insurrection, to PrincePierre Bonaparte, to ask satisfaction foran insult which the Prince, who was any-thing but princely in his manner of speech,had addressed to the editors of a radicalpaper, called the Revenge. PrincePierre, as the Empires ill-luck wouldhave it, was in a frightful temper on themorning of Victor Noirs visit; and Avhen
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THE MURDER OF VICTOR NOIR. the Imperial authority. The very nameof this saucy and vindictive journal wasa menace to Napoleon, who had ren-dered it a penal offence to sing theMarseillaise in any part of the domainof France. Attached to this paper wasa young Parisian journalist, a veritableenfant (III peiq^le, ignorant, but energetic,and wielding a caustic pen. On the10th of January, 1870, this young man,whose novi de plume was Victor Noir,was sent ))y Paschal Grousset, who wasafterwards deptined to play a rCle in the the young journalist, accompanied byone of his colleagues, entered the apart-ment of the Prince at Auteuil and statedhis mission, there was a lively quarrel.The Prince had challenged Rochefort onthe previous evening, and fancied thatNoir and his companion had comefrom the celebrated journalist with hisanswer. When he discovered his mis-take he took the letter which the youngjournalist handed him, read it carefullythrough, tossed it upon a chair, and,advancing, said : — 1

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