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" 12 p.m. (midnight). — On a motion by Jules Favre for the organization 

 and arming of the National Guard throughout France the Government 

 have been beaten by 243 to 21. A second proposal for the formation of a 

 Committee of National Defence in the House was also thrown out. In 

 consequence of the first vote the Ministry has resigned. Count Palikao 

 (General Montauban) is charged with the formation of a new Ministry. 

 This is considered as being virtually an overthrow of the Empire. It is 

 expected that the new Ministry will declare the House the supreme author- 

 ity, and that the Imperial Family will be invited to leave France. * Marshal 

 Bazaine has accepted the command in chief. General Changarnier the 

 Republican has been received by the Emperor at Metz and has appeared 

 in public with him. [Changarnier had been a rival candidate to Louis 

 Napoleon when they stood for the Presidentship of the Republic in 1850.] 



" I dined with Lascelles and met M. de Hiibner (the Austrian). He is a 

 violent hater of Prussia, but declares that she must crush France. I cannot 

 think that if only Frenchmen will be true to themselves, if the army can 

 throw itself into Paris, all may yet be well. Austria, Denmark, and even 

 England may think it the moment to intervene ; Prussia cannot support a 

 long war with all her ports blockaded. But if the French accept the terms 

 offered on a defeat they will be lost for ever. Imperial France has no 

 virtue to fall back upon; a Republic is their best chance; it is the only 

 name that has a power to rouse. 



" When I came home Julie talked of her recollections of the Emperor. 

 She remembered seeing him when he came back to Paris in 1852, and, 

 when kneeling on the steps of the Madeleine, he was blessed by the cure. 

 As he rode from the church and entered the gate leading from the Place de 

 la Concorde into the Tuileries garden, a crown of flowers was let down 

 from the upper part of the grille upon his head, and the people called out 

 for the first time, ' Vive 1'Empereur ! ' Three weeks later he was crowned 

 at Notre Dame. She also talked of his marriage, and Julie knew the 

 details because she was in Henry Howard's service, and he was Mrs. 

 Gould's lover. 1 Mademoiselle Montijo was taken to Compiegne by Mrs. 

 Gould, though she was not invited, and there the Emperor saw her out 

 riding. She was very beautiful, and had a wonderfully fair complexion. 

 The Emperor, although he knew she was the Marquis d'Aguado's mistress, 

 had a caprice for her, and wanted to make her leave Aguado, but she said 

 he must marry her and he did so, in spite of his friends and Ministers. 

 He said in his excuse that having, as they told him, done so much for 

 France, France must do this for him. According to Julie, Napoleon and 

 Eugenie made mauvais menage at first, but the Empress had never been 

 reproached for misconduct since the marriage. The child, the Prince 

 Imperial, was certainly hers, as any one could see by comparing her photo- 

 graph with the boy's. People had said that he was not, but this was 

 untrue. Julie has often been with letters from Howard to Mademoiselle 

 Montijo, when she lived with her mother in the Place Vendome, un 

 miserable entresol sur la cour. The house is No. 4, I think she said, in 

 the south-east corner of the square. She and her mother kept two women 



1 The Honble. Henry Howard, Secretary at Paris. 



