To express their support for the monarchy, both Chambers gathered in the Palace of the Tuileries on 14 April. In a gesture of appeasement, canceled his feast-day celebration on 1 May, and publicly announced that the sums that were to have been used for these festivities would be dedicated to the orphans, widows and injured. In the same time, he ordered Marshal to publicize these events widely across France (the provinces being more conservative than Paris), to convince them of the "necessary increase in the Army". to , 17 April 1834, quoted by , Op. cit., p. 723
