He clearly understood that there remained but one duty for the citizen, a bounden duty, inseparable from the law,--to defend the Republic and the Constitution, and to resist by every means the man whom the Left, but still more his own crime, had outlawed.

The refugees from Switzerland passed the frontier in arms, crossed the Rhone, near Anglefort, and entered the department of the Ain.

Charlet joined their ranks.
At Seyssel, the little troop fell in with the custom-house officers.
The latter, voluntary or misled accomplices of the _coup d'etat_, chose to resist their passage.

A conflict ensued, one of the officers was killed, and Charlet was made prisoner.
The _coup d'etat_ brought Charlet before a court-martial.

He was charged with the death of the custom-house officer, which, after all, was but an incident of war.