[ xx. (?) ] Wróblewski, Longuet, Bastelica are here. Why restore the scoundrel B. Becker to honour and allow the ass Gögg to retail his stupidities at length? Marx’s girls are in Bagnères-de-Luchon in the Pyrenees, visited by the Prefect, the great Kératry, and Procureur-General Delpech, who made clear to them the necessity of leaving France. Lafargue was fortun[ate] [...] mountain to Spain. They posted two gendarmes in the garden until their departure! But still nothing to be said publicly about this (except what may appear in the press from the French papers) until we have them back here. Thiers absolutely wants to make a fool of himself. Your F. E.