It was reported at once that M. Thiers was dissatisfied
with his tnajority, and events soon showed that he was right. On the very next day, M. Raoul Duval proposed an order of the day affirming that the municipal addresses in support of M. Thiers were violations of the law, and that M. Lefranc, the Minister of the Interior, ought to have repressed them, and his motion was carried by 305 to 299. The object of the motion was to gain control of the Home Office and the whole civil patronage of France, but M. Thiers, though accepting M. Lefranc's resignation, defeated the Right by appointing M. de Remusat, a member of the Left Centre and no friend of theirs, Minister ad interim. This increased the irritation, and on Thursday, when the bureaux were called on to nominate the Constituent Committee, the Right carried 19 members out of 30, thus making themselves absolute judges on the President's constitutional propositions. They threaten, moreover, to dismiss every Minister in succession, beginning with M. Jules Simon, Minister of Public Instruction, whom they especially detest.
