The military will be sent for.

You will be faced by the bayonets of mercenaries.

Do not provoke that, I implore you.

Do not put it into their power, do not afford them the pretext they would welcome to crush you down into the mud of your own blood." Out of the silence into which they had fallen anew broke now the cry of "What else, then?
What else ?" "I will tell you," he answered them.

"The wealth and strength of Brittany lies in Nantes--a bourgeois city, one of the most prosperous in this realm, rendered so by the energy of the bourgeoisie and the toil of the people.