The Feuillant ministry fell with the King, and an executive council composed of radicals took its place. For one single day Paris reeled like a drunkard, but on the next the shops were open again. On the following Sunday the opera was packed at a benefit performance for the widows and orphans of those who had fallen in victory. A few days later Lafayette, as commander of the armies in the North, issued a pronunciamento against the popular excesses. He even arrested the commissioners of the Assembly who were sent to supplant him and take the ultimate direction of the campaign. But he quickly found that his old prestige was gone; he had not kept pace with the mad rush of popular opinion; neither in person nor as the sometime commander of the National Guard had he any longer the slightest influence. Impeached and declared an outlaw, he, like the King, lost his balance, and fled for refuge into the possessions of Liège. The Austrians violated the sanctuary of neutral territory, and captured him, exactly as Napoleon at a later day violated the neutrality of Baden in the case of the Duc d'Enghien. On August twenty-third the strong place of Longwy was delivered into the hands of the Prussians, the capitulation being due, as was claimed, to treachery among the French officers. CHAPTER XIV. Buonaparte the French Jacobin. Reinstatement -- Further Solicitation -- Promotion -- Napoleon and Elisa -- Occupations in Paris -- Return to Ajaccio -- Disorders in Corsica -- Buonaparte a French Jacobin -- Expedition against Sardinia -- Course of French Affairs -- Paoli's Changed Attitude -- Estrangement of Buonaparte and Paoli -- Mischances in the Preparations against Sardinia -- Failure of the French Detachment -- Buonaparte and the Fiasco of the Corsican Detachment -- His Commission Lapses -- Further Developments in France -- Results of French Victory -- England's Policy -- Paoli in Danger -- Denounced and Summoned to Paris. [Sidenote: 1792-93.]