xxxvi MEMOIR 



interesting , as coming from a person resident on the spot ; 

 though probably you don't take much interest in the French, but 



I can think, write, and speak on no other subject. 



'Feb. 25. 



( There is no more fighting, the people have conquered ; but 

 the barricades are still kept up, and the people are in arms, more 

 than ever fearing some new act of treachery on the part of 

 the ex-King. The fight where I was was the principal cause 

 of the Revolution. I was in little danger from the shot, for 

 there was an immense crowd in front of me, though quite within 

 gunshot. [By another letter, a hundred yards from the troops.] 

 I wished I had stopped there. 



' The Paris streets are filled with the most extraordinary 

 crowds of men, women and children, ladies and gentlemen. 

 Every person joyful. The bands of armed men are perfectly 

 polite. Mamma and aunt to-day walked through armed crowds 

 alone, that were firing blank cartridge in all directions. Every 

 person made way with the greatest politeness, and one common 

 man with a blouse, coming by accident against her, immediately 

 stopped to beg her pardon in the politest manner. There are 

 few drunken men. The Tuileries is still being run over by the 

 people ; they only broke two things, a bust of Louis Philippe 

 and one of Marshal Bugeaud, who fired on the people. . . . 



4 1 have been out all day again to-day, and precious tired I 

 am. The Republican party seem the strongest, and are going 

 about with red ribbons in their button-holes. . . . 



' The title of " Mister " is abandoned ; they say nothing but 

 " Citizen," and the people are shaking hands amazingly. They 

 have got to the top of the public monuments, and, mingling 

 with bronze or stone statues, five or six make a sort of 

 tableau vivant, the top man holding up the red flag of the Re- 

 public ; and right well they do it, and very picturesque they 

 look. I think I shall put this letter in the post to-morrow as 



we got a letter to-night. 



(On Envelope.) 



' M. Lamartine has now by his eloquence conquered the 

 whole armed crowd of citizens threatening to kill him if he did 



