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"olution, I was at Odillon Barrot’s, and at Girardin’s, 1846.
“od met; jn private conclave Beaumont, Tocqueville, Duver- i. 42.
Zier do Hauranne, Léon Faucher, Bastiat, and others. I was
¥ Course a good deal consulted as to the way of managing
Sich things, and am afraid I must plead guilty to having
boon an accessory before the fact to much that was afterards
 done with so little immediate advantage to those
Concern eq, I remember in particular telling Odillon Barrot,
Wall sincerity, that he would have made a very successful
*itator on an English platform. His bluff igure and vehe-Neng
 style of oratory would have almost made him another
Bright, But to the point. I naturally made inquiries as
% What, amount of parliamentary reform they were aiming
", ang to my surprise found that all they wanted was a
"mall addition to the electoral list {not exceeding 200,000
Fotery), comprising ‘les capacités,” the professions, and a
rain mall increase from a slightly reduced tax-paying
franchise, Upon my expressing my amazement that they
Shoulq go for such a small measure (which, to be sure,
“Ppeared insignificant to me, just fresh from the total repeal
*f the Corn Laws), they answered that it would satisfy them
for the present ; it would recognize the principle of progress ;
“ud they frankly confessed that the bulk of the people were
80% fit for the suffrage, and that there was no security for
“ustitutional government excepting in a restricted electoral
lags, Well, when these moderate men afterwards brought
forward their harmless scheme, Guizot mounted the rostrum,
*d flourished his rod, aud in true pedagogical style told
them, they were naughty boys—that they wanted to have
in quots, which were very wicked things, and he would
tog allow such doings, and so he put down Barrot, Tocque-"ills,
 Bastiat, and Co., and up rose Marrast, Ledru Rollin,
“d Qo, to fill their places. The whole thing was the
"Slt of Guizot’s pedantry and Louis Philippe’s unbelief in
ge