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There, as in all the offices of the secretaries, there was a

great deal of business going on; on all sides, persons were

employed in issuing orders to ensure the peace of the following

day, to take from rebellion every pretext, to cool the audacity

of those who were desirous of fresh disorders, and to concentrate

power in the hands of those accustomed to exercise it. The number

of the soldiers who protected the house of the superintendant was

increased; the ends of the streets were defended by large pieces

of timber thrown across them; the bakers were ordered to bake

bread without intermission; expresses were sent to all the

surrounding villages, with orders to send corn into the city; and

at every baker's some of the nobility were stationed, to watch

over the distribution, and to restrain the discontented by fair

words and the authority of their presence.