The thunder of revolution had faded into an silence.
Paris, after more than three weeks of silence after blood, betrayal, and backroom gunfire, was once again breathing cold.
Delon's purge had gutted the old cabals.
The "ghost list" was now a myth, a part of history everyone wanted to forget.
Even a small remembrance of that list send shivers down to shine of those guilty.
France had teetered at the edge of an civil war and somehow survived.
It is true as Delon and Beauchamp both said.
This Republic can survive anything.
But as with all things in the Third Republic, the silence was always deceptive.
Upfront everything was going fine and by fine in France it meant economy in shambles, political revolution with parties fighting each other and people about to revolt.
But beyond the chaos something else was rising.
A character who finally lit the spark which will soon engulf the French Army.
