M.Martout had against him not only the skeptics, but the innumerable crowd of believers, in the bargain.

One party turned him to ridicule, the others proclaimed him revolutionary, dangerous, and an enemy of the fundamental ideas on which society rests.

The minister of one little church preached, in inuendoes, against the Prometheuses who aspired to usurp the prerogatives of Heaven.

But the rector of the parish did not hesitate to say, in five or six houses, that the cure of a man as desperately sick as M.Fougas, would be an evidence of the power and mercy of God.
The garrison of Fontainebleau was at that time composed of four squadrons of cuirassiers and the 23d regiment of the line, which had distinguished itself at Magenta.

As soon as it was known in Colonel Fougas' old regiment that that illustrious officer was possibly going to return to the world, there was a general sensation.