[74] Mégy, the famous governor of the Fort of Issy, was implicated in
the last, supposed, plot against the life of Napoleon III. Having shot
one of the police agents charged with his arrest, he was tried and
condemned to death. He was, however, delivered from prison on the
fourth of September, and appointed to the command of a battalion of
National Guards, with which he marched against the Hôtel de Ville on
the thirty-first of October and the twentieth of January. He was named
a member of the Commune on the eighteenth of March, and set fire to
the Cour des Comptes and the Palace of the Légion d’Honneur on the
twenty-third of May, 1871.