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 moderation. The number of their proscriptions amounted but to ninety-two, of which nineteen were military. They recalled the Chamber of the Peers, and among the new titles added to those of 1814 was that of Lanjuinais, President of the Chamber during the Hundred Days. Baron Louis carried his budget through as before, without repudiating any of the heavy debts contracted through recent events. Unfortunately these examples, in spite of their exalted source, were by no means generally followed. The disturbances in the provinces which arose from the return of Napoleon had never ceased; nearly 17,000 soldiers had been employed during the Hundred Days in a repression which was apparently inadequate. The disturbances continued, sometimes assuming the character of reprisals between rival factions. This excitement, added to that caused by the pressure of the foreign armies, was not exactly conducive to a prudent policy of juste milieu. Extreme Royalists had no difficulty, as it happened, in incriminating a policy which in the eyes of the less enlightened portion of the nation might be held responsible — however little it was so in reality — for the misfortunes of the