CHAPTER X.

The Revolution of '48 -- The beginning of it -- The National
Guards in all their glory -- The Cafe Gregoire on the Place du
Caire -- The price of a good breakfast in '48 -- The palmy days
of the Cuisine Bourgeoise -- The excitement on the Boulevards on
Sunday, February 20th, '48 -- The theatres -- A ball at
Poirson's, the erstwhile director of the Gymnase -- A lull in the
storm -- Tuesday, February 22nd -- Another visit to the Cafe
Gregoire -- On my way thither -- The Comedie-Francaise closes its
doors -- What it means, according to my old tutor -- We are
waited upon by a sergeant and corporal -- We are no longer
"messieurs," but "citoyens" -- An eye to the main chance -- The
patriots do a bit of business in tricolour cockades -- The
company marches away -- Casualties -- "Le patriotisme" means the
difference between the louis d'or and the ecu of three francs --
The company bivouacs on the Boulevard Saint-Martin -- A tyrant's
victim "_malgre lui_" -- Wednesday, February 23rd -- The Cafe
Gregoire once more -- The National Guards _en neglige_ -- A novel
mode of settling accounts -- The National Guards fortify the
inner man -- A bivouac on the Boulevard du Temple -- A camp scene
from an opera -- I leave -- My companion's account -- The
National Guards protect the regulars -- The author of these notes
goes to the theatre -- The Gymnase and the Varietes on the eve of
the Revolution -- Bouffe and Dejazet -- Thursday, February 24th,
'48 -- The Boulevards at 9.30 a.m. -- No milk -- The
Revolutionaries do without it -- The Place du Carrousel -- The
sovereign people fire from the roofs on the troops -- The troops
do not dislodge them -- The King reviews the troops -- The
apparent inactivity of Louis-Philippe's sons -- A theory about
the difference in bloodshed. -- One of the three ugliest men in
France comes to see the King -- Seditious cries -- The King
abdicates -- Chaos -- The sacking of the Tuileries -- Receptions
and feasting in the Galerie de Diane -- "Du cafe pour nous, des
cigarettes pour les dames" -- The dresses of the princesses --
The bourgeois feast the gamins who guard the barricades -- The
Republic proclaimed -- The riff-raff insist upon illuminations --
An actor promoted to the Governorship of the Hotel de Ville --