Alas, so far from that, it approves and encourages this ominous and fatal tranquillity.

Besides, it may be asked, how could the government send new administrators and able magistrates?
Who, of such men, is willing to bury himself in the arrondissements, where the good to be done is without glory?
If, by chance, some ambitious stranger settles there, he soon falls into the inertia of the region, and tunes himself to the dreadful key of provincial life.

Issoudun would have benumbed Napoleon.
As a result of this particular characteristic, the arrondissement of Issoudun was governed, in 1822, by men who all belonged to Berry.

The administration of power became either a nullity or a farce,--except in certain cases, naturally very rare, which by their manifest importance compelled the authorities to act.

The procureur du roi, Monsieur Mouilleron, was cousin to the entire community, and his substitute belonged to one of the families of the town.