CHAPTER IX.
LE MOUCHOIR ROUGE.
Nothing interfered to oppose the advance of the royalist troops towards Saumur.

At Coron, as had been proposed, Larochejaquelin and Denot joined Father Jerome; and Cathelineau also, and M.d'Elbee joined them there.
Every house in the town was open to them, and the provisions, which by the care of M.de Larochejaquelin had been sent there, were almost unneeded.

If there was any remnant of republican feeling in Coron, at any rate it did not dare to shew itself.

The road which the royalists intended to take ran from Cholet, through Coron, Vihiers, and Doue, to Saumur.

The republicans, who were now in great force at Saumur, under Generals Coustard and Quetineau, had sent small parties of soldiers into the town of Vihiers and Doue, the inhabitants of which were mostly republican.