The Assembly began to change its applause into murmurs when he mounted the tribune, whence a short time before he had been shamefully forced to withdraw, because he had wounded the plebeian susceptibility by appealing to the _most distinguished_ members of the Assembly.

The aristocracy of his rank showed itself beneath his uniform, whilst the people wished for members of its own stamp in the councils; and thus between the offended king and the suspicious Girondists, M.de Narbonne fell.

The king dismissed him, and he went to serve in the army he had organised.

His friends did not conceal their resentment.

Madame de Staeel lost in him her ambition and her ideal at the same time; but she did not abandon all hope of regaining for M.de Narbonne the confidence of the king, and of seeing him play a great political part.
She had sought to render him a Mirabeau, she now dreamed of making him a Monk.