The government house at the Cap was invaded and Laveaux and the ordonnateur Péroud were made prisoners.

But since the return of Pinchinat to the South, murmurs against Laveaux and Péroud had grown at the Cap: the storm broke. On 30 ventôse (20 March), at ten o’clock in the morning, the government house is invaded by white men, Black men and *mulâtres*. Laveaux, made a prisoner, is ill-treated; he is led to the jail, where Péroud already awaited him. A circumstance which proves to what point of discredit the authority of these two officials had fallen is the ease with which the enterprise could be accomplished; the population, far from opposing it, let everything be done with a certain gladness; the people, without distinction of color, applauded it. The municipality gave regular form to this fatal movement by bestowing on Villatte the care of the Public Safety; Villatte made the mistake of accepting.