For some days nothing happened.

The insurrection spread like wildfire, in Poitou and Anjou; and everywhere the peasants were successful, the authorities, soldiers, and gendarmes for the most part flying without waiting for an attack.
The news that all La Vendee was in insurrection astonished and infuriated the Convention, which at once took steps to suppress it.
On the second of April a military commission was appointed, with power to execute all peasants taken with arms in their hands, and all who should be denounced as suspicious persons.

General Berruyer was sent down to take the command.

The large army that had been raised, principally from the mob of Paris for the defence of that city, marched down; and Berruyer, at the head of this force, entered the Bocage on the tenth of April.
The time had passed quietly at the chateau.

The peasants had dispersed at once and, except that the principal leaders and a small body of men remained together, watching the course of events, all was as quiet as if profound peace reigned.
Jean Martin had returned home.