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out that such a concert was impossible, as their 

 mission and mine had a quite different, not to say 

 contrary, principle. The answer was : " Simply send 

 them duplicates of your despatches." 



I was still with him when a message from the 

 Prince President summoned me to the Elysee, where 

 I had already been in the morning ; and M. Drouyn 

 de Lhuys asked me to come and let him know what 

 passed between us. 



The Prince told me that he had carefully considered 

 the object of my mission, and that one point, about 

 which he was afraid that he had not spoken to me, 

 gave him great concern. This was the attitude of 

 our troops in the event of an armed intervention of 

 the Austrians and Neapolitans, whose action must at 

 all costs be prevented from being brought into com- 

 mon with ours. He gave me, in connection with 

 this, a letter for General Oudinot, and asked to see 

 my instructions, which he thought rather ambiguous, 

 and not sufficiently explicit. He informed me that 

 he intended sending to Kome General Yaillant, who 

 would be instructed to come to an understanding 

 with me, and who would replace General Oudinot 

 if the latter did not hit it off with us, or assume 

 command of the engineering operations if the siege 

 of Eome should be renewed. He added that I should 

 do well, if the opportunity occurred, to call attention 

 to the fact that in 1831 he had already taken part 

 against the Temporal Power when he was before 



