Augereau

Augereau belongs to Le Bon's gallery of figures whose characters shift with circumstance, evidence that even the fiercest revolutionaries resume quiet, law-abiding lives once the storm passes. He stands beside the notaries and magistrates of the Convention who became Napoleon's most obedient instruments, illustrating the book's claim that environment, not fixed nature, creates apparent uniformity of character. His brief appearance supports the argument that crowds unlock latent selves no one would predict in isolation.