The marquis's smile, the significance of which escaped her, set her thinking.
From that day forward, Rougon, at distant intervals, whenever the occasion offered, slipped in a good word for the President of the Republic.

On such evenings, Commander Sicardot acted the part of a willing accomplice.

At the same time, Clerical opinions still reigned supreme in the yellow drawing-room.

It was more particularly in the following year that this group of reactionaries gained decisive influence in the town, thanks to the retrograde movement which was going on at Paris.

All those anti-Liberal laws which the country called "the Roman expedition at home" definitively secured the triumph of the Rougon faction.