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With the Empire disintegrating in 1814, royalists in the Lyons region, as elsewhere in France, began to imagine the possibility of a Bourbon restoration and, as a result, a change in local politicians and administrators. However, with the policy of moderation, indeed of reconciliation, initiated by Louis XVIII, and given the powerfully resilient quality of Napoleonic society, Lyonnais royalists had made little progress at the end of 1814 in their attempt to overturn the social and political order. And despite this failure, there was still a feeling that the Ancien Régime was getting its own back on the Revolution, accompanied and fed by rumours of a return to feudalism, the restitution of Biens Nationaux to émigrés, and repression by Ci-devants thirsty for revenge. The development of an, albeit limited, royalism, matched by the distrust which it stimulated, led to the failure of the Napoleonic policy significantly pursued by Louis XVIII and the de-politicisation of society and administration. The events of the Hundred Days, so extreme in Lyons, showed clearly that the Revolution was far from over.