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The Rothschild Dynasty 73
James Rothschild gave Leder-Rollin seven hundred and
fifty thousand francs in support of the 1848 revolution. It
was said that he was compelled to do so under Rollin 's
threat to burn the Palais Rothschild in the Rue Lafitte. In
the three days of street fighting in June of 1848, Louis
Eugene Cavalgnac emerged victorious; He immediately
assumed dictatorial powers and was nominated president
of the council of ministers by the National Assembly. By
free use of large sums of money Rothschild ingratiated
himself with the new power in France, and was as much
at home with Cavalgnac as he had been with Louis
Philippe. It was soon said that he was as good a
Republican as he had been monarchist.
The French Workers Party claimed him as one of their
own. The Editor of the radical Tocsin des Travailleurs wrote:
You are a wonder sir! In spite of his legal majority Louis
Philippe has fallen, Guizot has disappeared, the
constitutional monarchy and parliamentary methods have
gone by the board; you, however, are unmoved. Where
are Aragon and Lamaratine? They are finished but you
have survived. The banking princes are going into
liquidation and their offices are closed.
The great captains of industry and the railway companies'
totter . . . you alone among those ruins remain unaffected.
Although your House felt the first shock of violence in
Paris, although the effects of the Revolution pursue you
from Naples to Vienna to Berlin, you remain unmoved in
the face of a movement that has affected the whole of
Europe. Wealth fades away, glory is humbled, and
dominion