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 owing to the Duc d'Angoulême. This time, not being on political ground, he was not restrained by his exaggerated filial respect. He had ample freedom, and he used it with remarkable prudence and perseverance, and an absolute sense of justice and honour. He chose his staff with a supreme indifference to coteries, and having fixed upon General Guilleminot, an old Imperialist, for his Major-General, he contrived to support him through thick and thin. No pressure ever moved this prince. Just as in trying to pacify the South in 1815, he had persistently displayed his anxiety to treat Protestant clergymen with the same respect as the Catholic priests, so now he showed that no consideration of birth or opinion could influence his judgment of an officer. Under his command the operations of war were well directed (the taking of the Trocadero, a success systematically underrated by the opposition, deserves a high-rank among our feats of arms). But the operations of peace were even better conducted. Wherever the French Army went it brought with it order, toleration, and justice. The celebrated Ordinance of Andujar, published by the Duc d'Angoulême on the 18th of August,