The newspapers denounce him.

He undergoes domiciliary visits.

In hundreds of places his chateau is sacked; the assassins and incendiaries who depart from it with their hands full and steeped in blood are not prosecuted, or are shielded by an amnesty:[2231] it is established by innumerable precedents that he may be run down with impunity.

To prevent him from defending himself, companies of the National Guard come and seize his arms: he must become a prey, and an easy prey, like game kept back in its enclosure for an approaching hunt .-- In vain he abstains from provocation and reduces himself to the standing of a private individual.

In vain does he patiently endure numerous provocations and resist only extreme violence.