As the coffin was being lowered into the grave, a scuffle broke out between the Jesuit priest, who was conducting the service, and supporters of the mayor, who realized that there had been a plot to undermine him. The priest suffered a gash to the head, the scuffle turned into a riot, and the coffin was left to drop unceremoniously into its grave. Watching the French establishment humiliate and destroy his father served only to consolidate Galois’s fervent support for the republican cause.
