This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...he had effected during his career put together. Nobody, even amongst the most odious reactionaries, disputed the authenticity of this bullet-wound. Now, France also had its wounded man. He was called MacMahon, not Garibaldi. He had been struck by a projectile, not at Aspromonte, but at Sedan. What was that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...he had effected during his career put together. Nobody, even amongst the most odious reactionaries, disputed the authenticity of this bullet-wound. Now, France also had its wounded man. He was called MacMahon, not Garibaldi. He had been struck by a projectile, not at Aspromonte, but at Sedan. What was that projectile? That is the question. Was it a splinter of a shell, a buckshot or a peach-stone? General Du Temple gave it to be understood in Parliament that it was nothing at all. And this horrible wound, which saved the marshal from the hard necessity of putting his signature to a disastrous capitulation--on what part of the body could its traces be discovered? On the back? On the left calf? Or on the right shoulder? MacMahon, in his stoicism, persistently refused to give any information on the subject. It is certainly not localized on any of the head-quarter staff maps. Who was the surgeon who bound up and eventually cured the injury? For at the time when Garibaldi's book was issued the president appeared to be in much more robust health than the Republic? Everything concerning this wound was hidden in mystery and uncertainty. MacMahon immediately replied by forbidding the sale of my novel, the Depraves, which I had just republished in volume form. This act of his will and pleasure was like all the others, in absolute defiance of the law. The library regime was not assimilated to that of the press, and there was nothing of a seizable nature in my purely sentimental story. The governmental action amounted to confiscation without judgment. In the worst days of the so-called liberal Empire, and during the worst nights of the personal Empire, the police had never dreamt of stopping a love-story on the grounds that the author professed advanced...
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