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 night of the twenty-eighth. Goupil and Désiré, with this band, co-operated in the capture of the town-hall. Désiré Minoret was decorated with the Legion of Honor, and appointed substitute of the attorney for the crown at Fontainebleau. Goupil was given the Cross of July. Dionis was elected Mayor of Nemours in place of the Sieur Levrault, and the municipal council was composed of MinoretLevrault, deputy; of Massin, Crémière and all the followers of Dionis’ salon. Bongrand kept his place only through the influence of his son, appointed attorney for the Crown at Melun, and whose marriage with Mademoiselle Levrault then appeared likely. Seeing that the three per cents were at fortyfive, the doctor set out by post for Paris; and invested five hundred and forty thousand francs in certificates to bearer. The remainder of his fortune, which amounted to about two hundred and seventy thousand francs, invested in his name in the same stock, gave him an ostensible income of fifteen thousand francs. He laid out the capital bequeathed by the old professor to Ursule in the same way, as well as the eight thousand francs yielded by the interest of nine years, which gave his ward an income of fourteen hundred francs, with the help of a small sum he added to it so as to enlarge this slight revenue. Following her master’s advice, old La Bougival had an income of three hundred and fifty francs by investing five thousand and a few hundred francs’ savings in the same way. These prudent speculations, planned between the