...r which there was still one more great applauding gust, and then an absolute quiet as Louis Blanc arose. It all brought home to me that brief and thrilling passage in Erckmann-Chatrian's story of Madame Therese , where a regiment of French soldiers, having formed square, is being crushed in by assaults on all sides, when the colonel, sitting on his horse in the middle, takes off his chapeau and elevates it ...