Il8 HEROES OF SCIENCE. 



Disgusted with the military spirit of the Empire, 

 De Candolle rejoiced at the restoration of the 

 Bourbons, and even became a volunteer to keep 

 the town in order. He began to change his mind 

 soon, however, for the Count d'Artois, one of the 

 royal family, received the professor with great 

 haughtiness, and, by way of making amends, paid 

 particular attention to a rascal of the first water 

 who had returned from the galleys, where he had 

 been sent for stealing, and not for devotion to the 

 Bourbons, as he told the duke. Going to Geneva 

 on a visit, to place his eldest son at school, De 

 Candolle found the city just being received into 

 the Confederation of the Swiss Republic. He 

 returned to Montpellier, which was full of rejoicing 

 at Napoleon's exile, but shortly afterwards all was 

 disorder during the hundred days in which Napoleon 

 was, for the last time, ruler of France. Beyond 

 the reach of direct politics, the professors of Mont- 

 pellier had their little evenings, and even got up 

 private theatricals. In the midst of a scene in 

 one of these came the news that Napoleon had 

 landed at Cannes, and was on his way to Paris. 

 That was the last quiet hour that De Candolle had in 

 the town. An unfriendly man, who was a royalist, 

 began to set people against the professor, who re- 

 sented their interference. He began to limit his 

 circle of friends, left literature alone more and 

 more, and plunged more deeply into science. He 

 determined to leave Montpellier and its littlenesses. 

 His principal care was to enlarge and utilize the 



