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Still they did not like to go and leave me without La Croissette. At length he appeared, and, addressing my father, said: "You had better avoid the precincts of your famous temple, La Calade: it has been completely demolished, and crowds are yet hanging about their beloved place of worship, regardless of danger, but the military will presently disperse them."
Arrived at the village of La Calade, the following extraordinary scene passed at the inn It was also related to me by our banker, who had it from the hostess herself: The landlord was called for, and a mean-looking figure in plain clothes, with a travelling-cap, and loose blue pantaloons, asked him if he could have dinner for twenty persons who were coming.
The carriages did not overtake the Emperor until they came to La Calade, where he had arrived a quarter of an hour before with Amaudru. They found him standing by the fire in the kitchen of the inn talking with the landlady. She had asked him whether the tyrant was soon to pass that way? "Ah! sir," said she, "it is all nonsense to say we have got rid of him.
When the moment for departure arrived it was proposed that he should put on the greatcoat and fur cap of General Kohler, and that he should go into the carriage of the Austrian Commissioner. The Emperor, thus disguised, left the inn of La Calade, passing between two lines of spectators. On turning the walls of Aix Napoleon had again the mortification to hear the cries of "Down with the tyrant!
Italy and Eugene Siege of Dantzic-Capitulation concluded but not ratified-Rapp made prisoner and sent to Kiow Davoust's refusal to believe the intelligence from Paris Projected assassination of one of the French Princes Departure of Davoust and General Hogendorff from Hamburg The affair of Manbreuil Arrival of the Commissioners of the Allied powers at Fontainebleau Preference shown by Napoleon to Colonel Campbell Bonaparte's address to General Kohler His farewell to his troops First day of Napoleon's journey The Imperial Guard succeeded by the Cossacks Interview with Augerean The first white cockades Napoleon hanged in effigy at Orgon His escape in the disguise of a courier Scene in the inn of La Calade Arrival at Aix The Princess Pauline Napoleon embarks for Elba His life at Elba.
Italy and Eugene Siege of Dantzic-Capitulation concluded but not ratified-Rapp made prisoner and sent to Kiow Davoust's refusal to believe the intelligence from Paris Projected assassination of one of the French Princes Departure of Davoust and General Hogendorff from Hamburg The affair of Manbreuil Arrival of the Commissioners of the Allied powers at Fontainebleau Preference shown by Napoleon to Colonel Campbell Bonaparte's address to General Kohler His farewell to his troops First day of Napoleon's journey The Imperial Guard succeeded by the Cossacks Interview with Augerean The first white cockades Napoleon hanged in effigy at Orgon His escape in the disguise of a courier Scene in the inn of La Calade Arrival at Aix The Princess Pauline Napoleon embarks for Elba His life at Elba.
During the seven or eight hours he passed at La Calade a considerable number of people had gathered round the inn, and manifested every disposition to proceed to some excess. Most of them had in their hands five-franc pieces, in order to recognise the Emperor by his likeness on the coin.
When the moment for departure arrived it was proposed that he should put on the greatcoat and fur cap of General Kohler, and that he should go into the carriage of the Austrian Commissioner. The Emperor, thus disguised, left the inn of La Calade, passing between two lines of spectators. On turning the walls of Aix Napoleon had again the mortification to hear the cries of "Down with the tyrant!
During the seven or eight hours he passed at La Calade a considerable number of people had gathered round the inn, and manifested every disposition to proceed to some excess. Most of them had in their hands five-franc pieces, in order to recognise the Emperor by his likeness on the coin.
The walls of La Calade have, at all events, a tongue; for on the summit of the ruins lies a stone with these words on it, 'Lo, this is the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!" Then addressing my father, he said. "The very fact of the public attention being drawn to this point makes other parts of the city comparatively deserted, and therefore favors your escape.
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