Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848. Adam Zamoyski
city of Grenoble. It was put down within hours by the commander of the garrison, General Donnadieu, who had prior knowledge of Didier’s plans. Six conspirators lost their lives during a brief shoot-out, fourteen more were shot by the general out of hand, and a further eleven were later condemned and executed. Richelieu was one of many who believed that Donnadieu had probably masterminded the rising so that he could show his zeal and obtain promotion.34
In May of the same year, the police arrested a number of people whom they suspected of conspiring to put either the Prince of Orange or the Duke of Kent on the throne. Later the same month, they were on to a plot by a group calling themselves ‘Les Patriotes de 1816’, which seems to have involved little more than people distributing triangular pieces of paper printed with the words Union, Honneur, Patrie and an incoherent phrase about decapitation. They found some other texts to the effect that the sufferings of the people would soon be at an end. However, most of those arrested maintained under interrogation that they had never heard of Les Patriotes de 1816. They were equally ignorant of the other secret groups, such as the Vautours de Bonaparte, the Patriotes Européens and Régéneration Universelle, whose existence informers had reported to the police. The files on the case, which consist principally of the reports of agents and mouchards snooping and checking up on various suspects, tell us more about the eating and sleeping habits and sexual mores of Parisians of the day than about potential subversion.35
Later the same month, the police arrested an NCO by the name of Monnier, who had been making plans of the fortress of Vincennes; in his lodgings they found various papers, including an oath, a barely coherent diatribe calling on Frenchmen to free their motherland of the occupying foreign forces and overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in favour of Napoleon. He was tried and sentenced to death, but on the scaffold he implicated several others, the most senior of whom was a demi-solde
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