four o’clock in the morning
One day the Vendée was ungrateful to him . He wished to be appointed general agent to the royalist armies of the interior ; Stofflet influenced the decision and got his old master , Comte Colbert de Maulevrier , appointed in Bernier 's stead . When , at two o'clock in the morning , the council broke up , the Abbé Bernier had disappeared . What he did that night , God and he alone can tell ; but at four o'clock in the morning a Republican detachment surrounded the farmhouse where Stofflet was sleeping , disarmed and defenceless . At half-past four Stofflet was captured ; eight days later he was executed at Angers . The next day Autichamp took command , and , to avoid making the same blunder as Stofflet , he appointed the Abbé Bernier general agent . Now , do you understand ? ''