Formose showed himself favourable to the Royalists, whose habits he admired and imitated.

If he smiled at the mention of the Dragon's crest it was at the thought of putting it on his own head.

He was envious of sovereign power, not because he felt himself capable of exercising it, but because he loved to appear so.

According to the expression of a Penguin chronicler, "he was a goose." Prince des Boscenos maintained his proposal to march against Formose's palace and the House of Parliament.
Count Clena was even still more energetic.
"Let us begin," said he, "by slaughtering, disembowelling, and braining the Republicans and all partisans of the government.

Afterwards we shall see what more need be done." M.de La Trumelle was a moderate, and moderates are always moderately opposed to violence.