He installed himself there in magisterial fashion, like a man who did not intend to quit the place, whatever might happen.

And he simply sent a note to Roudier, to advise him that he was resuming authority.
"Keep watch at the gates," he added, knowing that these lines might become public: "I myself will watch over the town and ensure the security of life and property.

It is at the moment when evil passions reappear and threaten to prevail that good citizens should endeavour to stifle them, even at the peril of their lives." The style, and the very errors in spelling, made this note--the brevity of which suggested the laconic style of the ancients--appear all the more heroic.

Not one of the gentlemen of the Provisional Commission put in an appearance.

The last two who had hitherto remained faithful, and Granoux himself, even, prudently stopped at home.