 He had more authority in the country than in the Chamber, where the violence of his oratory diminished its effect.He asserted that the fortifications of Paris were directed against liberty, not against foreign invasion, and he stigmatized the law of regency (1842) as an audacious usurpation.Neither from official liberalism nor from the press did he receive support; even the republican "National" was opposed to him because of his championship of labour.