Electors, May a Single Sentiment Move You

In the official government paper, the monitor, was a direct appeal from the king to support royalist candidates in the election. The liberals made aggressive hay that this adventure was folly destined to fail. Within days, polignac had intelligence reports coming back saying that it hadn't moved the needle at all and perhaps even stiffened the opposition. It looked like 221 were going to get re elected. So what were they going to do? Now, after discussing various options, the ministry settled on a plan to postpone the elections of 20 departments identified as being the strongest base of opposition. They said that the tangle of challenges and counter challenges to various individual voters qualifications prevented the vote from going forward on