On the 7th he re-established the house of Écouen.
On the 8th the duc d'Angoulême was taken prisoner at Pont-Saint-Esprit.
On the 10th, he published the decree with reference to the armament of the National Guard.
On the 11th he ordered the duc d'Angoulême to be taken to Cette and there set at liberty.
On the 12th the business was of a more serious nature! He heard the report of the duc de Vicence on the armament of the foreign Powers.
On the 14th he received Benjamin Constant.
On the 17th he appointed Grouchy marshal of the Empire.
Finally, on the 20th, a volley of a hundred cannon proclaimed that the tricoloured flag floated over every town in France.
True, Louis XVIII. addressed his manifesto to the French nation on the 24th, and the Allies on the 25th entered into an agreement not to lay down their arms until after they had beaten Napoleon. Also, on the 30th, England offered to supply the Allies with a hundred million francs for three years; on May 3rd, Murat was defeated near Tolentino; on the 12th the Austrians entered Naples; on the 14th the King of Prussia issued his decree concerning the landwehr; on the 19th the Russians threw my father's old enemy, Berthier, out of the windows of his hotel at Bumberg; and, finally, on the 26th, the emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia left Vienna to march on France.