"The veritable date was July 15th, as the 14th was Sunday.

Augereau and about sixty officers, "bad fellows" who disliked the mass, refused to go into the chapel and remained outside in the court."] [Footnote 3346: Several generals, Lecourbe, Souham, etc., were excluded as being too republican or suspect and hostile.

Lemercier, Ducis, Delille, and Lafayette refused.

Admiral Truguet, through pique and discontent, had at first declined the grade of grand-officer, but finally changed his mind and became at first commander and then grand-officer.] [Footnote 3347: "Les Cahiers du capitaine Coignet," passim and pp.

95, 145.