General Ducrot, whose known propensity for making coups critat and
military dictatorships has caused almost all the excitement in France in relation to the Limoges incident, has been superseded by the Marshal, and his place supplied, at the head of the 8th Infantry Division, by General Gamier. General Ducrot has been let down easily. He has not been cashiered, but placed on the Mixed Commission of Public Works, in lieu of General Borel, who has become Minister of War, so that General Ducrot's punishment has been managed in an honorific manner, and not in one likely to lead to further exposures. No doubt, the discipline of the French Army would hardly be improved by ferreting too closely into the political bias evinced by officers during recent events. It is enough to give the Army a conspicuous proof of the intention of the Government to discourage and punish anything like poli- tical intrigue, and then to leave the warning to work its own salutary effect. General Ducrot's and General de Bressolles's dis- grace will be quite enough to satisfy the exigencies of the situation.
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