The three royalists who first entered asked for the newspapers, among others, for the "Quotidienne" and the "Drapeau Blanc." The politics of Issoudun, especially those of the cafe Militaire, did not allow of such royalist journals.

The establishment had none but the "Commerce,"-- a name which the "Constitutionel" was compelled to adopt for several years after it was suppressed by the government.

But as, in its first issue under the new name, the leading article began with these words, "Commerce is essentially constitutional," people continued to call it the "Constitutionel," the subscribers all understanding the sly play of words which begged them to pay no attention to the label, as the wine would be the same.
The fat landlady replied from her seat at the desk that she did not take those papers.

"What papers do you take then ?" asked one of the officers, a captain.

The waiter, a little fellow in a blue cloth jacket, with an apron of coarse linen tied over it, brought the "Commerce." "Is that your paper?
Have you no other ?" "No," said the waiter, "that's the only one." The captain tore it up, flung the pieces on the floor, and spat upon them, calling out,-- "Bring dominos!" In ten minutes the news of the insult offered to the Constitution Opposition and the Liberal party, in the supersacred person of its revered journal, which attacked priests with courage and the wit we all remember, spread throughout the town and into the houses like light itself; it was told and repeated from place to place.