Several deputies rush at the general, and fiercely shake him by the collar.

He turns faint with excitement and chagrin; but Lefebvre and a few grenadiers rushing up drag him from the hall.

He comes forth like a somnambulist (says an onlooker), pursued by the terrible cry, "Hors la loi!" Had the cries at once taken form in a decree, the history of the world might have been different.

One of the deputies, General Augereau, fiercely demands that the motion of outlawry be put to the vote.

Lucien Bonaparte refuses, protests, weeps, finally throws off his official robes, and is rescued from the enraged deputies by grenadiers whom the conspirators send in for this purpose.