While passing through the Faubourg St.Honore, he stopped in the midst of a group which seemed to regard with curiosity a sign that was being put up over a shop door.

The sign was neither more nor less than Marcel's picture, which Medicis had sold to a grocer.

Only "the Passage of the Red Sea" had undergone one more alteration, and been given one more new name.

It had received the addition of a steamboat and was called "the Harbor of Marseilles." The curious bystanders were bestowing on it a flattering ovation.

Marcel returned home in ecstacy at his triumph, muttering to himself, _Vox populi, voz Dei_..