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Now, this is precisely what does take place, as is shown in particular by the experiments of Morat and Dufourt.

Morat still shows many a mark and relic of its siege by Charles the Bold and of the overthrow of his forces by the Swiss.

Herrenschwand about Madame d'Urfe, so I stopped at Morat, where he lived, and which is only four leagues from Berne. The doctor made me dine with him that I might try the fish of the lake, which I found delicious. I had intended to go on directly after dinner, but I was delayed by a curiosity of which I shall inform the reader.

During our stay at Morat a violent dispute had arisen among the Arabs of our caravan about some money which had been stolen from one of them.

John was reminded of it years after when he sat under the shade of the decrepit lime-tree in Freiburg and was told that it was originally a twig which the breathless and bloody messenger carried in his hand when he dropped exhausted in the square with the word "Victory!" on his lips, announcing thus the result of the glorious battle of Morat, where the Swiss in 1476 defeated Charles the Bold.

"After the duke had been discomfited the second time by the Swiss before Morat, believing that he could do the thing secretly, he made a plan to kidnap Mme. of Savoy and her children and take them to Burgundy, and he ordered me, I being at Geneva, on my head to capture Mme. of Savoy and her children and bring them to him.

That evil man scares my soul from heaven!" gasped the boy. And Adam preached penitence to the one that cursed, and Sibyll knelt down and prayed with the one that prayed. And up rose the moon! Lord Hastings sat with his victorious captains over mead, morat, and wine in the humble hall of the farm. "So," said he, "we have crushed the last embers of the rebellion!

The reading of that letter brought on the apoplectic seizure of which he died in his carriage next day the 9th of June, 1727 on the road to Osnabruck. Charlotte Corday and Jean Paul Morat Tyrannicide was the term applied to her deed by Adam Lux, her lover in the sublimest and most spiritual sense of the word for he never so much as spoke to her, and she never so much as knew of his existence.

There exists a sort of analogy between celebrated men and celebrated places; it was not, therefore, an uninteresting spectacle to see Bonaparte surveying the field of Morat, where, in 1476, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, daring like himself, fell with his powerful army under the effects of Helvetian valour.

He had melted down the church-bells in this part of Burgundy and Vaud, to make cannon for the final effort which failed so fatally at Morat; and the old chroniclers relate without any allusion to the sacrilege that the artillery was wretchedly served on that cruel day.