"May 9, 1831, at the end of a political banquet, being intoxicated—not with wine but with the ardent conversation of an evening—he proposed a sarcastic toast to the King. He held his glass and an open knife in one hand and said simply: "To Louis Philippe!" Of course he was soon arrested and sent to Ste. Pélagie. The lawyer persuaded him to maintain that he had actually said: "To Louis-Philippe, if he betray," and many witnesses affirmed... His attitude before the tribunal was ironical and provoking, yet the jury rendered a verdict of not proven and he was acquitted. On the following Fourteenth of July, the government... [had] him arrested as a preventive measure. He was given six months' imprisonment on the technical charge of carrying arms and wearing a military uniform, but he remained in Ste. Pélagie only until... sent to a convalescent home... A dreadful epidemic of was then raging in Paris, and Galois' transfer had been determined by the poor state of his health."
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