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He mentions Monge, Berthollet, Andreossy, the paymaster, Junot, and Bourrienne, secretary to the General-in-Chief. It has also been stated that Sucy, the commissary-general, was seriously wounded while bravely defending a gunboat laden with provisions; but this is incorrect. We had no communication with the army until the 23d of July.
Both were deeply sun-burned, and their high gaiters of tanned leather showed signs of the bogs and the thickets they had just come through. "Come," said Monsieur de Sucy, "let us get on. A short hour's march, and we shall reach Cassan in time for a good dinner."
The ci-devant Comte de Sucy a pestilential aristo if ever there was one! had been sent to the guillotine less than a fortnight ago. His chateau, situated just outside Gentilly, stood empty, it having been given out that the widow Sucy and her two children had escaped to England.
The count, who was at the edge of it, lost his balance and fell into the river; as he fell, a cake of sharp ice caught him, and cut off his head, flinging it to a great distance. "See there! major!" cried the grenadier. "Adieu!" said a woman's voice. Philippe de Sucy fell to the ground, overcome with horror and fatigue.
On the 21st of August Bonaparte established at Cairo an institute of the arts and sciences, of which he subsequently appointed me a member in the room of M. de Sucy, who was obliged to return to France, in consequence of the wound he received on board the flotilla in the Nile.
The mimic Russia was so startlingly real, that several of his old comrades recognized the scene of their past sufferings. M. de Sucy kept the secret of the drama to be enacted with this tragical background, but it was looked upon as a mad freak in several circles of society in Paris.
"It is the retreat of the rear-guard!" cried the major. "All hope is gone!" "I have saved your carriage, Philippe," said a friendly voice. Turning round, de Sucy recognized the young aide-de-camp in the flaring of the flames. "Ah! all is lost!" replied the major, "they have eaten my horse; and how can I make this stupid general and his wife walk?" "Take a brand from the fire and threaten them."
If the Sucy diamonds are not found, you alone will be held responsible for their loss to the Government of the People." Chauvelin's voice had now assumed a threatening tone, and Gourdon felt all his audacity and self-assurance fall away from him, leaving him a prey to nameless terror. "We must round up Rateau," he murmured hastily. "He cannot have gone far."
Monsieur de Sucy took care to keep secret the motive for this tragic imitation, which was talked of in several Parisian circles as a proof of insanity. Early in January, 1820, the colonel drove in a carriage, the very counterpart of the one in which he had driven the Comte and Comtesse de Vandieres from Moscow to Studzianka.
"If you had actually hit Madame la Comtesse, you would have done less harm to her." "Well, well, then, we can neither of us complain, for the sight of the Countess all but killed my friend, M. de Sucy." "The Baron de Sucy, is it possible?" cried the doctor, clasping his hands. "Has he been in Russia? was he in the Beresina?" "Yes," answered d'Albon.
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