One of the resolutions passed at the royalist agency in the Rue des Postes, after Cadoudal's departure on the evening to which we have referred, was that a meeting should be held the following evening at the Théâtre of the Odéon.
During the evening, as we have seen, a crowd of men, led by some fifty of the members of the "jeunesse dorée", had repaired to the hall of the Convention, but their chief, Coster de Saint-Victor, having disappeared as completely as if he had vanished through some trap-door, the mob and the "muscadins" beat in vain against the doors of the Convention, whose members had been forewarned by Barras of the attack which was about to be made upon them.
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