The church was full of Catholics.
This meeting offended the constitutionalists and excited the other party.

The _Te Deum_, as a thanksgiving, was demanded and sung by the adherents of the ancient _cure_, who, encouraged by this success, announced to the faithful that he should come again the next day at the same hour to celebrate the sacrament.

"Patience!" he added; "let us be prudent, and all will be well." The municipality, informed of these circumstances, entreated the _cure_ to abstain from celebrating the mass the next day, as he had announced; and he complied with their wishes.

The multitude, not informed of this, filled the church, and clamoured for the priest and the promised _Te Deum_.

The gentry of the neighbourhood, the aristocracy of Caen, the clients and numerous domestics of the leading families in the neighbourhood, had arms under their clothes.