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THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO Handy Library Edition NAPOLEON THE LITTLE
THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO
NAPOLEON THE LITTLE
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1909, By Little, Brown, and Company
CONTENTS
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BOOK I
December 20, 18481
Mission of the Representatives10
Notice of Expiration of Term12
Men Will Awaken17
Biography22
Portrait26
In Continuation of the Panegyrics35
BOOK II
The Constitution46
The Senate49
The Council of State and the Corps Législatif52
The Finances55
The Liberty of the Press57
Novelties in Respect to What Is Lawful60
The Adherents64
Meus Agitat Molem69
Omnipotence76
The Two Profiles of M. Bonaparte81
Recapitulation86
BOOK III
The Crime96
The Coup d'État at Bay98
BOOK IV The Other Crimes
Sinister Questions150
Sequel of the Crimes159
What 1802 Would Have Been175
The Jacquerie180
BOOK V Parliamentarism
1789189
Mirabeau191
The Tribune193
The Orators196
Influence of Oratory201
What an Orator Is203
What the Tribune Accomplished205
Parliamentarism208
The Tribune Destroyed211
BOOK VI The Absolution: First Phase
The Absolution214
The Diligence215
Scrutiny of the Vote.—A Reminder of Principles.—Facts217
Who Really Voted for M. Bonaparte229
Concession232
The Moral Side of the Question234
An Explanation for M. Bonaparte's Benefit238
Axioms244
Wherein M. Bonaparte Has Deceived Himself246
BOOK VII The Absolution: Second Phase: The Oath
For an Oath, an Oath and a Half251
Difference in Price255
Oaths of Scientific and Literary Men258
Curiosities of the Business261
The 5th of April, 1852266
Everywhere the Oath272
BOOK VIII Progress Contained in the Coup D'État
The Quantum of Good Contained in Evil275
The Four Institutions That Stand Opposed to the Republic280
Slow Movement of Normal Progress282
What an Assembly Would Have Done285
What Providence Has Done289
What the Ministers, Army, Magistracy, and Clergy Have Done291
The Form of the Government of God292
CONCLUSION—PART FIRST Pettiness of the Master—Abjectness of the Situation
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CONCLUSION—PART SECOND Faith and Affliction
315
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