#like..yeah

A little bit jittery. A bit of a stress comedown.

"What the Ministry of the Interior ostensibly grants, freedom of voting, the Ministry of Police is responsible for removing it. Thus M. de Maupas boasts of having stifled the candidacy of M. Faucher, and that in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, several workers, heads of families, were threatened with a clandestine printing trial, to have printed with one of these little lithographic presses that every merchant has bulletins bearing the name of M. Victor Hugo. The nomination of Mr. Hugo would be for the Elysee a great subject of discontent. Of all the banished, the illustrious poet is the one against whom M. Bonaparte feeds the most hatred: it is personal animosity, brightened by the ever increasing popularity of the outlaw. Hated in the salons of the nobility and the bourgeoisie before the coup, M. Hugo has found all the lost ground. He is now regarded as one of the most energetic defenders of right and true liberty, equally an enemy of despotism and license. It was mainly because of Mr. Hugo that it was rumored that the government would not elect any representative banned in perpetuity.”