I will acknowledge that, by this time, I was dreadfully angry; I had done a thing that, if considered in the light of an act of bravado, might indeed be regarded as a very grave impertinence, and one in which I, least of any person, had no right to indulge towards the king. I went down the staircase as quickly as I had gone up it, ran to the café _du Roi,_ and asked for the _Moniteur_ with a ferocity that astonished the frequenters of the café. They had to send out and borrow one from the café _Minerve._ The order was in a prominent position; it was short, but explicit, and in these simple words-- "LOUIS-PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH,--To all, now and hereafter, Greeting. Upon the report of our Minister, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, we have ordained and do ordain as follows:-- "ARTICLE I.--The corps of artillery of the National Guard of Paris is disbanded. "ARTICLE 2.--Proceedings for the reorganisation of that corps shall begin immediately. "ARTICLE 3.--A commission shall be appointed to proceed with that reorganisation." After seeing this official document I could have no further doubts upon the subject. I went home, stripped myself of my seditious clothing, put on the dress of ordinary folk, and went off to the Odéon for my rehearsal of _Napoléon Bonaparte_, which was announced for its first production the next day. As I came away after the rehearsal, I met three or four of my artillery comrades, who congratulated me warmly. My adventure had already spread all over Paris; some-thought it a joke in the worst possible taste, others thought my action heroic. But none of them would believe the truth that it was done through ignorance. To this act of mine I owed being made later a member of the committee to consider the national pensions lists, of the Polish committee and of that for deciding the distribution of honours to those who took conspicuous part in the July Revolution, and of being re-elected as lieutenant in the new artillery,--honours which naturally led to my taking part in the actions of 5 June 1832, and being obliged to spend three months' absence in Switzerland and two in Italy.