For this step he was severely attacked in parliament, and was accused of fomenting rebellion by means of his spies.
About this time he went to Paris, where he lived a poor, ascetic and studious life - making acquaintance, however, with the socialistic ideas which were then fomenting in the capital.
The ensuing debacle played a prominent part in the fomenting of the 1917 mutinies in the French Army.
As Julian Evans reported last week in these pages, the US is actively fomenting revolt in Belarus.
As ally of the Bourbons of Naples, from whom he had received an annual subsidy, he attempted, after 1860, to facilitate their restoration by fomenting brigandage on the Neapolitan frontier.