A road-surveyor was regarded as having been lukewarm, and accordingly put on the retired list.

There is no petty vexation that was not resorted to, no insignificant person, whom they disdained to strike.

Stone breakers were denounced for saying that they ought not to have their wages reduced.

Sisters of charity, in a certain commune, dispensed medicine to the poor; they were forbidden to do this, to annoy the mayor living in Paris.

The custodians of mortgages had an errand-boy who was guilty of distributing, not voting-tickets, but family notices (of a marriage) on the part of the new deputy; a few days after this, a letter from the prefecture gave the custodian notice that the criminal must be replaced in twenty-four hours.