Here is the placard:

"FRENCH REPUBLIC.

"_In the name of the French People_.

"The President of the Republic,

"Wishing, until the reorganization of the Legislative Body and the Council of State, to be surrounded by men who justly possess the esteem and the confidence of the country,

"Has created a Consultative committee, which is composed of MM.--

"Abbatucci, ex-Councillor of the Court of Ca.s.sation (of the Loiret).

General Achard (of the Moselle).

Andre, Ernest (of the Seine).

Andre (of the Charente).

D'Argout, Governor of the Bank, ex-Minister.

General Arrighi of Padua (of Corsica).

General de Bar (of the Seine).

General Baraguay-d'Hilliers (of Doubs).

Barbaroux, ex-Procureur-General (of the Reunion).

Baroche, ex-Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs, Vice-President of the Committee (of the Charente-Inferieure).

Barret (Ferdinand), ex-Minister (of the Seine).

Barthe, ex-Minister, first President (of the Cour de Comptes).

Bataille (of the Haute-Vienne).

Bavoux (Evariste) (of the Seine-et-Marne).

De Beaumont (of the Somme).

Berard (of the Lot-et-Garonne).

Berger, Prefect of the Seine (of Puy-de-Dome).

Bertrand (of the Yonne).

Bidault (of the Cher).

Bigrel (of the Cotes-du-Nord).

Billault, barrister.

Bineau, ex-Minister (of the Maine-et-Loire).

Boinvilliers, ex-President of the body of barristers (of the Seine).

Bonjean, Attorney-General of the Court of Ca.s.sation (of the Drome).

Boulatignier.

Bourbousson (of Vaucluse).

Brehier (of the Manche).

De Cambaceres (Hubert).

De Cambaceres (of the Aisne).

Carlier, ex-Prefect of Police.

De Casabianca, ex-Minister (of Corsica).

General de Castellane, Commander-in-Chief at Lyons.

De Caulaincourt (of Calvados).

Vice-Admiral Cecile (of the Seine-Inferieure).

Chadenet (of the Meuse).

Charlemagne (of the Indre).

Cha.s.saigne-Goyon (of Puy de Dome).

General de Cha.s.seloup-Laubat (of the Seine-Inferieure).

Prosper de Cha.s.seloup-Laubat (Charente-Inferieure).

Chaix d'Est-Ange, Barrister of Paris (of the Marne).

De Chazelles, Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand (of Puy-de-Dome).

Collas (of the Gironde).

De Crouseilhes, ex-Councillor of the Court of Ca.s.sation, ex-Minister (of the Ba.s.ses-Pyrenees).

Curial (of the Orne).

De Cuverville (of the Cotes-du-Nord).

Dabeaux (of the Haute-Garonne).

Dariste (of the Ba.s.ses-Pyrenees).

Daviel, ex-Minister.

Delacoste, ex-Commissary-General (of the Rhone).

Delajus (of the Charente-Inferieure).

Delavau (of the Indre).

Deltheil (of the Lot).

Denjoy (of the Gironde).

Desjobert (of the Seine-Inferieure).

Desmaroux (of the Allier).

Drouyn de Lhuys, ex-Minister (of the Seine-et-Marne).

Theodore Ducos, Minister of the Marine and of the Colonies (of the Seine).

Dumas (of the Inst.i.tut) ex-Minister (of the Nord).

Charles Dupin, of the Inst.i.tut (of the Seine-Inferieure).

General Durrieu (of the Landes).

Maurice Duval, ex-Prefect.

Escha.s.seriaux (of the Charente-Inferieure).

Marshal Excelmans, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor.

Ferdinand Favre (of the Loire-Inferieure) General de Flahaut, ex-Amba.s.sador.

Fortoul, Minister of Public Instruction (of the Ba.s.ses-Alpes).

Achille Fould, Minister of Finance (of the Seine).

De Fourment (of the Somme).

Fouquier-d'Herouel (of the Aisne).

Fremy (of the Yonne).

Furtado (of the Seine).

Gasc (of the Haute Garonne).

Gaslonde (of the Manche).

De Gasparin (ex-Minister).

Ernest de Girardin (of the Charente).

Augustin Giraud (of Maine-et-Loire).

Charles Giraud, of the Inst.i.tut, member of the Court of Public Instruction, ex-Minister.

G.o.delle (of the Aisne).

Goulhot de Saint-Germain (of the Manche).

General de Grammont (of the Loire).

De Grammont (of the Haute-Saone).

De Greslan (of the Reunion).

General de Grouchy (of the Gironde).

Kallez Claparede (of the Bas-Rhin).

General d'Hautpoul, ex-Minister (of the Aude).

Hebert (of the Aisne).

De Heeckeren (of the Haut-Rhin).

D'Herembault (of the Pas-de-Calais).

Hermann.