did Raoul and Goubin. Pommier was the only one who admitted to attending a Carbonari meeting. All four refused to cooperate by giving names of their associates in the Charbonnerie in exchange for being spared of execution. The Advocate General, Louis Antoine François de Marchangy, demanded their execution, starting with Bories, whom he considered to be the leader of the conspiracy. Marchangy alluded to Mérilhou when he said in his indictment, "Here the real culprits are not those in the dock, but those on the advocates' bench."The court deliberated, then announced the death penalty for the four sergeants. They were executed the next day in the place de Grève, in Paris. Legacy The four sergeants became heroes among the Carbonari in Italy. The flag used by the Four Sergeants was once owned by Prince Jérôme Bonaparte. It is a French Tricolor bearing the slogans Constitution and Napoleon II on one side and Honour and Fatherland on the other. The flag was used by the Carbonari ventes between 1821 and 1822. It was seen during the plot of the 29th line regiment in Belfort, then in Paris, and finally in La Rochelle where it was preserved. It passed through the hands of Lieutenant-Colonel Caron, then to M. Dubourjal, then to Marquis d'Audan who finally offered it to Prince Napoleon in 1888. The restaurant "Les Quatre Sergents" in La Rochelle is named after them. Footnotes References People executed by the Bourbon dynasty of the Kingdom of France People executed by France by guillotine Carbonari Bourbon Restoration Conspiracies La Rochelle