CHAPTEE II. 



EPISODES OF 1848 AT PARIS AND MADRID. 



SELECTED at the outset of the Eevolution by M. 

 de Lamartine for the French Embassy in Spain, 

 I was about to repair to Madrid, when I received an 

 extract from a Spanish journal, in which it was said 

 that the people of Paris, after having seized the 

 Tuileries, had stolen the things left there by an 

 Infanta of Spain. The Eoyal Family, on leaving the 

 Tuileries, had left behind them all their most valuable 

 effects, and among others the jewellery of the Spanish 

 princess, who was the wife of the Due de Montpen- 

 sier. I accordingly asked M. de Lamartine to let me 

 take possession of this jewellery. He told me that he 

 had no power over the invaders of the Tuileries, who 

 had erected barricades and would not allow any one 

 to enter the palace, but he advised me to go and see 

 M. Marrast, the Mayor of Paris. The latter, formerly 

 a writer in the National, with whom I was well ac- 

 quainted, said to me, " The fact is I do not in the 

 least know the people who occupy the Tuileries, and 

 I have no idea what their plans and intentions may 



