CHAPTER VII

The Mayor of Soissons--The excise-office powder--M. Jousselin-- The hatchet belonging to the warehouse-keeper--M. Quinette--I break open the door of the powder magazine--Triumphant exit from Soissons--M. Mennesson attempts to have me arrested--The Guards of the Duc d'Orléans--M. Boyer--Return to Paris--"Those devils of Republicans!"