Note 385 — BOOK I[330] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
M. de Bondy's letter ran as follows:
"Monsieur le vicomte,
"I regret that I cannot accept, in the name of the City of Paris, the 12,000 francs which you have done me the honour to send me. In the origin of the funds which you offer, people would see, beneath an apparent benevolence, a political combination against which the entire population of Paris would protest by its refusal.
"I am, etc.
"The Comte de Bondy,
"Prefect of the Seine."—B.