went between the Tuileries and the headquarters of the
emigres at Coblenz. He became, in short, a member of the royalist secret
service that in the end was to bring down the monarchy in ruins.

As for Andre-Louis, his godfather's house saw him no more, as a result
of his conviction that M. de Kercadiou would not relent from his written
resolve never to receive him again if the duel were fought.

He threw himself into his duties at the Assembly with such zeal and
effect that when--its purpose accomplished--the Constituent was dissolved
in September of the following year, membership of the Legislative, whose
election followed immediately, was thrust upon him.

He considered then, like many others, that the Revolution was a thing
accomplished, that France had only to govern herself by the Constitution
which had been given her, and that all would now be well. And so it
might have been but that the Court could not bring itself to accept the
altered state of things. As a result of its intrigues half Europe was
arming to hurl herself upon France, and her quarrel was the quarrel of
the French King with his people. That was the horror at the root of all
the horrors that were to come.

Of the counter-revolutionary troubles that were everywhere being stirred
up by the clergy, none were more acute than those of Brittany, and,
in view of the influence it was hoped he would wield in his native
province, it was proposed to Andre-Louis by the Commission of Twelve,
in the early days of the Girondin ministry, that he should go thither to
combat the unrest. He was desired to proceed peacefully, but his powers
were almost absolute, as is shown by the orders he carried--orders
enjoining all to render him assistance and warning those who might
hinder him that they would do so at their peril.

He accepted the task, and he was one of the five plenipotentiaries
despatched on the same errand in that spring of 1792. It kept him absent
from Paris for four months and might have kept him longer but that at
the beginning of August he was recalled. More imminent than any trouble
in Brittany was the trouble brewing in Paris itself; when the political
sky was blacker than it had been since '89. Paris realized that the hour
was rapidly approaching which would see the climax of the long struggle
between Equality and Privilege. And it was towards a city so disposed
that Andre-Louis came speeding from the West, to find there also the
climax of his own d