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Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
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1Often a circle of inquisitive people would gather around her, and after listening awhile to her music, some would enter into conversation with her, asking her the name of the song she had just played, when she would at once point with her bow to one of the pieces of music hanging upon the wall, intimating, at the same time, that the price was ten sous.
3Prince Louis Napoleon had then left London, and was living in Paris, where he hoped to be elected President of the new Republic. There were six other candidates: Cavaignac, Lamartine, Ledru Rollin, Raspail, Changarnier, and the Prince de Joinville.
5The first and the last named of these had the best chances, and indeed got a very large number of votes; but the Napoleonic idea was then pervading all classes of society. One writer called this "a fond remembrance of the glorious past, rather than a hope of its renewal under the rule of the nephew." It was doubted by the greater number of the most ardent admirers of the first Napoleon, whether his nephew was sufficiently popular to obtain an appreciable following; and those who did not doubt this were mostly very poor men. Money was painfully scarce with the Prince candidate, who was then staying at the Hôtel du Rhin, in the Place Vendôme.
7It was known to many that Louis Napoleon and
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