Revenge was taken on the electors.

Gendarmes, in the communes, investigated the conduct of the cures, forest-guard, and storekeeper.

The hospital doctor, a conservative, was replaced by an opportunist.

The tax-comptroller, a man of the district, and of suspicious zeal, was sent far into the west.

Every functionary who, on the even of the election, did not have a contrite look, was threatened with dismissal.