CHAPTER VI.

THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

Al danger being over, all scruples vanished. Prudent and wise people
could now give their adherence to the _coup d'etat_, they allowed their
names to be posted up.

Here is the placard:

"FRENCH REPUBLIC.

"_In the name of the French People_.

"The President of the Republic,

"Wishing, until the reorganization of the Legislative Body and the
Council of State, to be surrounded by men who justly possess the esteem
and the confidence of the country,

"Has created a Consultative committee, which is composed of MM.--

"Abbatucci, ex-Councillor of the Court of Cassation (of the Loiret).
General Achard (of the Moselle).
Andre, Ernest (of the Seine).
Andre (of the Charente).
D'Argout, Governor of the Bank, ex-Minister.
General Arrighi of Padua (of Corsica).
General de Bar (of the Seine).
General Baraguay-d'Hilliers (of Doubs).
Barbaroux, ex-Procureur-General (of the Reunion).
Baroche, ex-Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs,
Vice-President of the Committee (of the Charente-Inferieure).
Barret (Ferdinand), ex-Minister (of the Seine).
Barthe, ex-Minister, first President (of the Cour de Comptes).
Bataille (of the Haute-Vienne).
Bavoux (Evariste) (of the Seine-et-Marne).
De Beaumont (of the Somme).
Berard (of the Lot-et-Garonne).
Berger, Prefect of the Seine (of Puy-de-Dome).
Bertrand (of the Yonne).
Bidault (of the Cher).
Bigrel (of the Cotes-du-Nord).
Billault, barrister.
Bineau, ex-Minister (of the Maine-et-Loire).
Boinvilliers, ex-President of the body of barristers (of the Seine).
Bonjean, Attorney-General of the Court of Cassation (of the Drome).
Boulatignier.
Bourbousson (of Vaucluse).
Brehier (of the Manche).
De Cambaceres (Hubert).
De Cambaceres (of the Aisne).
Carlier, ex-Prefect of Police.
De Casabianca, ex-Minister (of Corsica).
General de Castellane, Commander-in-Chief at Lyons.
De Caulaincourt (of Calvados).
Vice-Admiral Cecile (of the Seine-Inferieure).
Chadenet (of the Meuse).
Charlemagne (of the Indre).
Chassaigne-Goyon (of Puy de Dome).
General de Chasseloup-Laubat (of the Seine-Inferieure).
Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat (Charente-Inferieure).
Chaix d'Est-Ange, Barrister of Paris (of the Marne).
De Chazelles, Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand (of Puy-de-Dome).
Collas (of the Gironde).
De Crouseilhes, ex-Councillor of the Court of Cas