His three great admirations were Napoleon, Bolivar, and Beranger.

Foy, Lafitte, and Casimir Delavigne he only esteemed.

Fleury, as you will have guessed already, was a Southerner, destined, no doubt, to become the responsible editor of a liberal journal.
Desroys, the mysterious clerk of the division, consorted with no one, talked little, and hid his private life so carefully that no one knew where he lived, nor who were his protectors, nor what were his means of subsistence.

Looking about them for the causes of this reserve, some of his colleagues thought him a "carbonaro," others an Orleanist; there were others again who doubted whether to call him a spy or a man of solid merit.

Desroys was, however, simple and solely the son of a "Conventionel," who did not vote the king's death.