So the clergy and the nobility accepted accomplished facts with resignation; postponing, until later, the realisation of their hopes, and making amends for their miscalculations by uniting with the Bonapartists for the purpose of crushing the last Republicans.
[*] The Count de Chambord, "Henri V." It was these events that laid the foundation of the Rougons' fortune.
After being mixed up with the various phases of the crisis, they rose to eminence on the ruins of liberty.

These bandits had been lying in wait to rob the Republic; as soon as it had been strangled, they helped to plunder it.
After the events of February 1848, Felicite, who had the keenest scent of all the members of the family, perceived that they were at last on the right track.

So she began to flutter round her husband, goading him on to bestir himself.

The first rumours of the Revolution that had overturned King Louis Philippe had terrified Pierre.

When his wife, however, made him understand that they had little to lose and much to gain from a convulsion, he soon came round to her way of thinking.
"I don't know what you can do," Felicite repeatedly said, "but it seems to me that there's plenty to be done.