A struggle was begun injudiciously, for the good of the community compelled the authorities to yield in the end.

Du Bousquier embittered the provincial nobility against the court nobility and the peerage; and finally he brought about the shocking adhesion of a strong party of constitutional royalists to the warfare sustained by the "Journal des Debats," and M.
de Chateaubriand against the throne,--an ungrateful opposition based on ignoble interests, which was one cause of the triumph of the bourgeoisie and journalism in 1830.
Thus du Bousquier, in common with the class he represented, had the satisfaction of beholding the funeral of royalty.

The old republican, smothered with masses, who for fifteen years had played that comedy to satisfy his vendetta, himself threw down with his own hand the white flag of the mayoralty to the applause of the multitude.

No man in France cast upon the new throne raised in August, 1830, a glance of more intoxicated, joyous vengeance.

The accession of the Younger Branch was the triumph of the Revolution.