A band of working-men came to request Monsieur Garconnet to communicate the despatches he had received from Paris, which the latter haughtily refused to do; as it retired the band shouted: "Long live the Republic! Long live the Constitution!" After this, order was restored.

The yellow drawing-room, after commenting at some length on this innocent parade, concluded that affairs were going on excellently.
The 5th and 6th were, however, more disquieting.

Intelligence was received of successive risings in small neighbouring towns; the whole southern part of the department had taken up arms; La Palud and Saint-Martin-de-Vaulx had been the first to rise, drawing after them the villages of Chavanos, Nazeres, Poujols, Valqueyras and Vernoux.

The yellow drawing-room party was now becoming seriously alarmed.

It felt particularly uneasy at seeing Plassans isolated in the very midst of the revolt.