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The "Orient" having blown up, there were six survivors. Of these, one, the "Tonnant," next astern of the "Orient," though dismasted, was still afloat, a mile behind her former position, having dropped there to avoid the explosion. The "Heureux" and "Mercure," which had slipped their cables for the same reason, were ashore and helpless.
Marmontel at that time wrote the 'Mercure de France'. As I had too much pride to send my works to the authors of periodical publications, and wishing to send him this without his imagining it was in consequence of that title, or being desirous he should speak of it in the Mercure, I wrote upon the book that it was not for the author of the Mercure, but for M. Marmontel.
In the Mercure Galant all sorts of out-of-the-way beings bring their petitions to the writer of a weekly paper. This thought and many of the most entertaining details have, if I am not mistaken, been borrowed by a popular German author without acknowledgment.
It is frequently quoted by Maynial; there is a careful study of it which appeared in Mercure de France, June, 1905, by Louis Thomas. And there is that charming volume, Amitié amoureuse, in which Guy is said to figure as the Philippe, by Henri Amic and Madame Lecomte du Nouy.
I shouted, "Flûte, Mercure, allez! Je suis puceau!" Marcel was equal to this. "Et ta soeur?" he demanded as he disappeared down the staircase. He had put us meanwhile in the very chamber with the red curtains and the picture of Cupid and Psyche that Sitgreaves had described. Perhaps all the rooms were similarly decorated. I lounged on the bed while Sitgreaves sat on a chair and smoked....
Chateaubriand was born in Brittany, of a noble but not illustrious family, in 1769, entered the army in 1786, and during the Reign of Terror emigrated to America. He returned to France in 1799, after the 18th Brumaire, and became a contributor to the "Mercure de France."
The Prince de Vaudemont was the brother of the Duc de Lorraine. Maximilien de Béthune, Marquis de Rosny, was the elder son of the Due de Sully and of Anne de Courtenay, his first wife. He was Superintendent of Fortifications, Governor of Mantes and Gergeau, and was destined to succeed his father as Grand Master had he survived him. He died in 1634. Mercure Français, 1606, pp. 110-113.
But it is evident from what Grotius says himself, Ep. 104, that it was the 29th. Le Clerc. Mercure François, an. 1617. X. The warmest opposers of a National Synod being disabled from giving any further obstruction, the States-General proceeded to the holding of it.
Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 40-42. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 172, 173. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 81. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 81-87. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 174-178. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 207-209. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 42, 43. Mercure Français, 1614. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 88, 89. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 191, 192. Lingard, Hist. of England, vol. ix. p. 271. Siri, Mém.
Believe me ever, Your obliged, HORATIO NELSON. To Sir James Saumarez. I hope Lady S. and all the little ones are well. Secret, for Sir James. Six of the prizes sailed yesterday with Sir James Saumarez; three others, viz. Guerrier, Heureux, and Mercure are in the act of repairing. In this state I received last evening Earl St. Vincent's most secret orders, and most secret and confidential letters.
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