And to this incident was due his rapid advance in an admirable military career, only interrupted by Waterloo.
Pajol belonged to the Opposition and was almost Republican in his views.
Three days before this, when the Chamber was laying the preliminary foundations of a new monarchy, Pajol, who saw the turn things were taking, was walking sadly along the rue de Chabrol, in company with Degousée, who himself deplored the direction in which the Revolution was turning, when, suddenly, Pajol stopped.
"You told me, a minute ago, that you led a company of devoted men in the attack on the Louvre?" he asked.
"No doubt of it."
"Well, could you still rely on those men?"
"I believe so."
"To the pitch of executing to the letter, and without any discussion, any order you might give them?"
"What sort of order?"
"Suppose it were to arrest the deputies?"