We had the privilege of contributing to the pomp of this cortège formed of a hundred thousand men; shadowed by flags draped in crêpe; and marching to the roll of muffled drums, and the dull twangings of the tam-tams. At one time, the whole boulevard was flooded by a howling sea like the rising tide, and, soon, the storm burst. As the funeral procession came out of the church, the students tried to get possession of the coffin, shouting, "To the Panthéon!" But Odilon Barrot came forward; the Panthéon was not in the programme, and he opposed their enthusiasm and, as a struggle began, he appealed to the law. "The law must be enforced!" he cried. And he called to his aid that strength which people in power generally apply less to the maintenance of law than to the execution of their own desires; which, unfortunately, is not always the same thing. Eighteen months later, these very same words, "The law must be enforced!" were pronounced over another coffin, but, in that instance, the law was not enforced until after two days of frightful butchery. At the edge of Benjamin Constant's grave, La Fayette nearly fainted from grief and fatigue, and was obliged to be held up and pulled backward or he would have lain beside the dead before his time. We shall relate how the same thing nearly happened to him at the grave of Lamarque, but, that time, he did not get up again. Every one returned home at seven that evening, imbued with some of the stormy electricity with which the air during the whole of that day had been charged. Next day, the Chamber enacted a law, which, in its turn, led to serious disturbances. It was the law relative to national pensions. On 7 October, M. Guizot had ascended the tribune and said-- "GENTLEMEN,--The king was as anxious as you were to sanction by a legislative act the great debt of national gratitude, which our country owes to the victims of the Revolution. "I have the honour to put before you a bill to that effect. Our three great days cost more than _five hundred orphans_ the loss of fathers, _five hundred widows_ their husbands, and over _three hundred old people_ have lost the affection and support of children. _Three hundred and eleven citizens_ have been mutilated and made incapable of carrying on their livelihood, and _three thousand five hundred and sixty-four wounded people_ have had to endure temporary disablement." A Commission had been appointed to draw up this bill and, on 13 December, the bill called the Act of National Recompense was carried. It fixed the amounts to be granted to the widows, fathers, mothers and sisters of the victims; and decreed that France should adopt the orphans made during the Three Days fighting; among other dispositions it contained the following--