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 appeared on the scene. They had always been there, but now it seemed that they had lost much of their determination and self-confidence. The revolt was easily suppressed. At last an obscure pamphleteer, called Cauchois-Lemaire, published an appeal to the Duc d'Orleans, in which he adjured this Prince to form some sort of government in place of the Bourbon régime ; he only succeeded in raising an explosion of indignant protestation felt by all parties. Thus, after three years and a half (September 1824 to December 1827) of a policy disapproved by the majority, the nation showed no sign of disaffection to the throne. Nothing but a slight coolness in the attitude of the crowd when in the presence of its sovereign — and this chiefly in Paris. But it was quite enough to grieve the monarch. It made him inclined to refuse his support to the proposals of Villèle ; Villèle, who clung to power in a very undignified fashion, to keep himself in office would have thought nothing of another dissolution of the Chamber ; instead of that he had to resign, having remained seven years in office.

In January 1828 M. de Martignac became Prime Minister. In MM. Roy, Portalis, and