Note 114 — Chapter XIII
Eleanor Marx Aveling translation
"The general commanding the department and the procureur-general, aware that I had for thirty years been the friend of the man who commanded the Commune at Narbonne, came to solicit my intervention to induce him to submit. It was arranged that if I did not succeed I should immediately send a telegram to General Robinet, in order that the military authorities might act in consequence. At midnight I sent the telegram.... You do not know me; it is thanks to my personal influence that order was maintained at Carcassonne."—Speech of M. Marcou to the Assembly in answer to M. de Gavardie, Sitting of the 27th January 1874.