General Forey--the same who had refused a battalion to the President of the Constituent Assembly, Marrast, who had promoted him from a colonel to a general--General Forey, in the centre of the courtyard of the Mairie, his face inflamed, half drunk, coming out, they said, from breakfast at the Elysee, superintended the outrage.

A member, whose name we regret we do not know, dipped his boot into the gutter and wiped it along the gold stripe of the regimental trousers of General Forey.
Representative Lherbette came up to General Forey, and said to him, "General, you are a coward." Then turning to his colleagues, he exclaimed, "Do you hear?
I tell this general that he is a coward." General Forey did not stir.

He kept the mud on his uniform and the epithet on his cheek.
The meeting did not call the people to arms.

We have just explained that it was not strong enough to do so; nevertheless, at the last moment, a member of the Left, Latrade, made a fresh effort.

He took M.Berryer aside, and said to him, "Our official measures of resistance have come to an end; let us not allow ourselves now to be arrested.