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Done at Commune Affranchie, thirteenth Nivose, second year. Extract of a denunciation of Citizen Boismartin against Citizen Laplanche, member of the National Convention: "The twenty-fourth of Brumaire, in the second year of the republic, the Administrators of the district of St.
"I want to know," Jeanne said, "at what age it becomes my own, and how much it amounts to. It seems to me that I have a right to know these things, and as you will not tell me, I have written to Monsieur Laplanche." The Princess held out her hand. "Give me the letter," she said. Jeanne made no motion to obey. "Do you object to my writing?" she asked.
Ye Shaftesburys, Bolingbrokes, Voltaires, and must I add the name of Gibbon,* behold yourselves inscribed on the registers of fame with a Laplanche, a Chenier, an Andre Dumont, or a Fouche! * The elegant satirist of Christianity will smile at the presumption of so humble a censurer.
The chief defence of Laplanche consisted in allegations that the said Citizen Lemonnier was rich, and a royalist, and that he had found emblems of royalism and fanaticism about the house.
More than half of that has gone in your education, and in an allowance to myself since I have had the charge of you. There is a little left in the hands of Monsieur Laplanche, but very little indeed. What there is we owe for your dresses, the rent of this house, and other things." "You mean," Jeanne interrupted bewildered, "that I have no money at all?" "Practically none," the Princess answered.
The chief defence of Laplanche consisted in allegations that the said Citizen Lemonnier was rich, and a royalist, and that he had found emblems of royalism and fanaticism about the house.
"I object," the Princess said, "to your writing anybody on any subject without my permission, and so far as regards the information you have asked for from Monsieur Laplanche, I will tell you all that you want to know." "I prefer," Jeanne said steadily, "to hear it from Monsieur Laplanche himself. There are times when you say things which I do not understand.
"Did you want me particularly?" "To whom were you writing?" the Princess demanded. "To Monsieur Laplanche for one person," Jeanne answered calmly. The Princess raised her eyebrows. "And what had you," she asked, "to say to Monsieur Laplanche?" "I have written to ask him a few particulars concerning my fortune," Jeanne answered. "Such as?" the Princess inquired steadily.
Lo were living on a few ounces of brown bread, "the best bread, the choicest wines, pillaged in the house of Lemonnier, were lavishly given in pans and kettles to General Seepher's horses, also to those of representative Laplanche." Lemonnier, set at liberty, could not return to his emptied dwelling then transformed into a storehouse.
Done at Commune Affranchie, thirteenth Nivose, second year. Extract of a denunciation of Citizen Boismartin against Citizen Laplanche, member of the National Convention: "The twenty-fourth of Brumaire, in the second year of the republic, the Administrators of the district of St.
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