ent to power, M. Buchez
had been raised to one of the highest functions in the State, though
absolutely devoid of any political or parliamentary talent, as was shown
later on by his "Histoire Parlementaire de la Revolution Francaise," an
utterly commonplace production.

Dussart, one of the staff, became Prefect of the Seine-Inferieure.

Adam, one of the staff, became Chief Secretary of the Prefecture of the
Seine.

Sain de Bois-le Comte, one of the staff, became minister plenipotentiary
at Turin.

Felicien Mallefille, one of the staff, became minister plenipotentiary
at Lisbon.

Anselme Petetin, one of the staff, became minister plenipotentiary at
Hanover.

Auguste Petetin (his brother), one of the staff, became Prefect of the
Department of the Cote-d'Or.

Frederic Lacroix, one of the staff, became chief secretary for civil
affairs in Algeria.

Hetzel, one of the staff, became chief secretary to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.

Rousset, one of the staff, became Prefect of the Department of the
Loire.

Duclerc, shorthand reporter, became for a little while Minister of
Finances.

Pagnerre, publisher of the _National_, and bookseller, became a mayor, a
member of the Provisional Government, a member of the Executive
Committee, and finally Director of the Comptoir d'Escompte.

Achille Gregoire, the printer of the _National_, became Prefect of the
Department of the Upper-Saone.

Clement Thomas, called the Constable of the _National_, became the
Commander-in-chief of the National Guard of the Seine.

There are a few score more, friends and allies, such as Lalanne, who was
made director of the national workshops; Levrault, who was sent to
Naples as minister plenipotentiary; Carette, who became Civil-Chief at
Constantine; Carteron, who was appointed keeper of the national
archives, etc.

As a matter of course, all these adventurers had revolving around them a
number of satellites, as eager as the former to reap the fruits of the
situation. Most of them, like the cat of Heine's epigram, had to devour
their steak raw; they did not know how to cook it. Ministers, prefects,
and high dignitaries of State as they were, they felt awkward in the
society of those to whom no illusion was possible with regard to their
origin and that of their political fortunes.

They haunted, therefore, by preference, the less well frequented
restaurants and cafes, the wings of the minor theatres, on the pretext
that they were th