The following day he sent out a second circular forbidding all associations of government employees as illegal.

He dismissed one hundred and eighty postmen, reinstated them, reprimanded them--and awarded them gratuities.

At Cabinet councils he was always on the point of bursting forth.

The presence of the Head of the State scarcely restrained him within the limits of the decencies, and as he did not dare to attack his rival he consoled himself by heaping invectives upon General Debonnaire, the respected Minister of War.
The General did not hear them, for he was deaf and occupied himself in composing verses for the Baroness Bildermann.

Hippolyte Ceres offered an indistinct opposition to everything the Prime Minister proposed.