(London, 3 February 1875] 

..The Bonapartist gentry, or so it would seem, have finally 
succeeded in alarming the Orleanists, who will now hastily and 
after their own fashion botch up a republic for you.™ But once 
constituted it will, I believe, also frustrate Orleanist intrigue, put 
an end to the Rurals’*' régime and potter along in its own way...