CHAPTER IX.
CONSIDERABLE OF A DISTURBANCE IN FONTAINEBLEAU.
It did not take long to get spread about the town that M.Martout and the Messieurs Renault, intended, in conjunction with several Paris _savans_, to resuscitate a dead man.
M.Martout had sent a detailed account of the case to the celebrated Karl Nibor, who had hastened to lay it before the Biological Society.

A committee was forthwith appointed to accompany M.Nibor to Fontainebleau.

The six commissioners and the reporter agreed to leave Paris the 15th of August,[2] being glad to escape the din of the public rejoicings.

M.Martout was notified to get things ready for the experiment, which would probably last not less than three days.
Some of the Paris papers announced this great event among their "Miscellaneous Items," but the public paid little attention to it.

The grand reception of the army returning from Italy engrossed everybody's interest, and moreover, the French do not put more than moderate faith in miracles promised in the newspapers.
But at Fontainebleau, it was an entirely different matter.