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"One is being organized in the mountains of Auvergne, under the orders of M. de Chardon; another in the Jura Mountains, under M. Teyssonnet; and, finally, a third is operating most successfully at this time, in the Vendee, under the orders of Escarboville, Achille Leblond and Cadoudal." "Truly, citizen, you render me a real service in telling me this.

In Brittany and in Normandy, Georges Cadoudal and Frotte continued hostilities; severe instructions were sent, first to General Hedouville, and then to General Brune. "The Consuls think that the generals ought to shoot on the spot the principal rebels taken with arms in hand. However cunning the Chouans may be, they are not so much so as Arabs of the desert.

A defeat like that is fully as glorious as a victory." During this time Brise-Bleu's horse had been led up for the Republican colonel. He sprang into the saddle. "By the bye," said Cadoudal, "as you go through La Roche-Bernard, just inquire what has happened to citizen Thomas Milliere." "He is dead," said a voice.

"You should not have allowed him to pass," he cried, "but having passed he is free to retreat." The Chouans obeyed with the religious faith they placed in the words of their chief. "And now," said Cadoudal, "cease firing; no more dead; make prisoners." The Chouans drew together and surrounded the heaps of dead, and the few living men, more or less wounded, who lay among the dead.

For in the meantime he had found in the duke's papers proofs of his having offered his services to the British Government for the present war, his hopes of participation in a future Continental war, but nothing that could implicate him in the Cadoudal plot.

The many plots to assassinate the First Consul especially the one that very nearly succeeded when he was on his way to the opera and the knowledge that an organized band of conspirators were in red-hot activity and, headed by the Duc d'Enghien, Cadoudal, Moreau, and Pichegru, were determined to kill the head of the State, overthrow the Government, and re-establish the Bourbon dynasty, caused the Duc to be arrested, tried by his fellow-countrymen, and found guilty of the charges brought against him, and, by the blundering of Savary, afterwards Duke of Rovigo, and the persistence of Murat, the death penalty was carried out and he was shot.

But I am certain that three-fourths of the town and country round will go, and whether it be for Moreau or Pichegru or Cadoudal it is of no consequence. It will be very fine. You will see!" "I believe you," I answered. We had reached the German gate; I kissed her again, and went back quite happy to my work.

Cadoudal had given a crown of six sous to each man. Roland could not help reflecting that the gift was made with the money of the Directory sent to the West by Morgan and the Companions of Jehu. Roland's first visit on arriving in Paris was to the First Consul. He brought him the twofold news of the pacification of the Vendee, and the increasingly bitter insurrection in Brittany.

Bonaparte soon even employed those of the banished who, like Portalis, Simeon, Barbe-Marbois, had shown themselves more anti-conventionalists than counter-revolutionists. He had also gained over opponents of another description. He also addressed himself to the leaders of the Breton bands, Georges Cadoudal, Frotte, Laprevelaye, and Bourmont. The two last alone consented to submit.

"I give them, or rather I confide them to you. I regret that your horse was killed; so is mine. But there is still that of Brise-Bleu; accept it." The young man made a motion of rejection. "Until you can obtain another, of course," added Cadoudal, bowing. Roland felt that he must put himself, at least in simplicity, on a level with the man with whom he was dealing.