ords.

"Public tranquillity was indeed twice endangered at Marseilles during the
Hundred Days, and both times in the same manner. The garrison officers
used to gather at a coffee-house in the place Necker, and sing songs
suggested by passing events. This caused an attack by the townspeople,
who broke the windows by throwing stones, some of which struck the
officers. These rushed out, crying, 'To arms!' The townspeople were not
slow to respond, but the commandant ordered the 'geneydle' to beat, sent
out numerous patrols, and succeeded in calming the excitement and
restoring quietness without any casualties.

"The day of the Champ du Mai orders for a general illumination were
given, and that the tricolour flag should be displayed from the windows.
The greater number of the inhabitants paid no attention to the desires of
the authorities, and the officers being annoyed at this neglect, indulged
in reprehensible excesses, which, however, resulted in nothing mare
serious than some broken windows belonging to houses which had not
illuminated, and in some of the householders being forced to illuminate
according to order.

"In Marseilles as in the rest of France, people began to despair of the
success of the royal cause, and those who represented this cause, who
were very numerous at Marseilles, gave up annoying the military and
seemed to resign themselves to their fate. Marshal Brune had left the
city to take up his post on the frontier, without any of the dangers with
which he was threatened having come across his path.

"The 25th of June arrived, and the news of the successes obtained at
Fleurus and at Ligny seemed to justify the hopes of the soldiers, when,
in the middle of the day, muttered reports began to spread in the town,
the distant reverberations of the cannon of Waterloo. The silence of the
leaders, the uneasiness of the soldiers, the delight of the Royalists,
foretold the outbreak of a new struggle, the, results of which it was
easy to anticipate. About four o'clock in the afternoon, a man, who had
probably got earlier information than his fellow-townspeople, tore off
his tricoloured cockade and trampled it under foot, crying, "Long live
the king!" The angry soldiers seized him and were about to drag him to
the guard-house, but the National Guards prevented them, and their
interference led to a fight. Shouts were heard on all sides, a large
ring was formed round the soldiers, a few musket shots heard, o