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They requisitioned seven hundred , including two little ponies of Madame de Rothschild . The carriages were then seized , and if a lady happened to take a cab she was obliged when she met an officer in search of one , to get out in the mud and leave him to take her place . Two orders were circulated . The first enjoined the presentation at the police station every morning , before eight o'clock , of a list of all travellers who had arrived in the hotels and boarding-houses . Many societies formed for divers purposes such as gymnastics , education , and the like , were called before the commander-in-chief and dissolved . Such of them as had for object military exercises were invited to deposit their arms . Finally the general addressed to the presidents of the societies some kindly words upon the necessity of the measures taken , and upon the actual situation in general .