Memoirs of Monsieur Claude Chief of Police Under the Second Empire
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They were to be either smothered or turned. The Chateau possessed an amiable deputy who had a particular gift for turning an Opposition paper. Through the great experience of this deputy, the dreaded journal soon became either inoffensive or still-born. The affair was managed as follows : When a citizen, Orle*anist or Republican, rich and ambitious, felt the need of creating a liberal sheet, this liberal deputy was sent to him. The deputy, a former MONSIEUR CLAUDE 197 journalist himself under t...he late monarchy, endeavoured to show the proprietor of the new paper that the Empire was the most liberal of governments. He proved it (being secretly in the pay of the Chateau) by assuring him he should be relieved of giving bonds in a sum of money if that sum were applied towards the salary of a sub-editor to be selected by himself. It was very rare that the liberal citizen refused these suggestions of the liberal deputy. However liberal a citizen may be, he is none the less flattered to be con- sidered a something by the Government he wishes to tease, and so obtain, as the result of his teasing, the cross of the Legion of Honour, which pleases his wife and gives prestige to his name.
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