Letter to Adolphe Hubert, February 12, 1872

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 12 February 1872


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO ADOLPHE HUBERT

IN LONDON

[London,] 12 February 1872

My dear Friend,

Herewith the notes: Old Crémieux has been in London where he put up at the Golden Cross Hotel with a gentleman whom he caused to be entered in the hotel register as his son, but who is in reality Mr Truchy, a former captain on the General Staff, a Bonapartist in search of a fortune, and editor of the Liberté (Girardin's), to which he was appointed by Badinguet[1] and for which he writes military articles under the nam de plume of Mousselerès.

These gentry were in London to settle some business with the man at Chislehurst.[2] The result of the transactions was old man Crémieux's nomination as one of the members of the Regency of the Empire (in the event of Badinguet's death).

Yours ever,

Karl Marx

  1. ↑ Nickname of Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon III). Badinguet was the name of a stonemason in whose clothes Louis Bonaparte escaped from prison in Ham in 1846.
  2. ↑ Napoleon III, who lived in that area of London after his release from captivity, from March 1871.