Volume 1

Paris and the Parisians in 1835.

  • Frances Trollope
Date:
1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Al LETTER VII. Alarm created by the Trial of the Lyons Prisoners.—Visits from a Republican and from a Doctrinaire: reassured by the promises of safety and protection received from the latter. WE have really had something very like a panic amongst us, from the rumours in circula- tion respecting this terrible trial, which is now rapidly approaching. Many people think that fearful scenes may be expected to take place in Paris when it begins. The newspapers of all parties are so full of the subject, that there is little else to be found in them; and all those, of whatever colour, which are opposed to the government, describe the man- ner in which the proceedings are to be managed, as the most tyrannical exercise of power ever practised in modern Europe. The legitimate royalists declare it to be illegal, inasmuch as the culprits have a right to be tried by a jury of their peers—the citizens of France ; whereas it appears that this their chartered right is denied them, and that no other judge
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