CHAPTER VI

Léon Pillet--His uniform--Soissonnais susceptibility--Hard returns to the charge with his play--I set out for la Vendée--The quarry--I obtain pardon for a coiner condemned to the galleys--My stay at Meurs--Commandant Bourgeois--Disastrous effect of the tricolours in le Bocage--Fresh proofs that a kindness done is never lost