Louis XVIII., this sage functionary ordered the poor man to be apprehended. The mayor construed the verses above quoted in the following manner:-Flos Jovis, the flower of Jupiter, was of course the flower of Napoleon; folii tricoloris denoted as evidently the three-coloured cockade; et ipsi par viole was a manifest allusion to le père la violette, as Bonaparte was then called, because his partizans had adopted this flower as a sign of their attachment, and carried it in their buttonholes, or in their bosoms. Astonished and confounded as the poor schoolmaster at first was at his arrest, he could not forbear smiling at this comic interpretation of the above passage by his worship the mayor.