The most active mounted first.

Antony Thouret, who himself alone equalled the whole of the Right, for he had as much mind as Thiers and as much stomach as Murat; Antony Thouret, corpulent and lethargic, was the last.

When he appeared on the threshold of the omnibus in all his hugeness, a cry of alarm arose;--Where was he going to sit?
Antony Thouret, noticing Berryer at the bottom of the omnibus, went straight up to him, sat down on his knees, and quietly said to him, "You wanted 'compression,' Monsieur Berryer.

Now you have it." [8] Michel de Bourges had thus characterized Louis Bonaparte as the guardian of the Republic against the Monarchical parties..