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"It was his fault; one of his lanterns is out," declared the chauffeur, and, half turning, he exchanged curses with the departing jehu. They had now reached Napoleon's arch, and, at greater speed, the automobile descended the Avenue de la Grande Armée. "Are you thinking of accepting the Rio Janeiro offer?" asked the commissary presently. "Very seriously; but I don't know whether it's still open.
The hopes aroused in the Jews of Lithuania by the Napoleonic wars were disappointed. An iron hand held them down, and they continued to vegetate miserably in their gloomy, abandoned corner. The story goes that when Napoleon at the head of the grande armee entered Wilna, the exclamation was forced from him, "Why, this is the Jerusalem of Lithuania!"
It has since been remarked that they smell of the lamp here and there; but at first no one had eyes except for the rose, the vine, and the laurel. The Bourbons, brought back for the second time in 1815, committed all manner of blunders: they insulted the remains of the old grande armée; they shot Marshal Ney and many others; a horrible royalist reaction ensanguined the South of France.
They formed three corps, each from ten to twelve thousand strong, according to the division of La Vendee, under three commanders; the first, under Bonchamps, guarded the banks of the Loire, and was called the Armee d'Anjou; the second, stationed in the centre, formed the Grande armee under d'Elbee; the third, in Lower Vendee, was styled the Armee du Marais, under Charette.
Napoleon had not only taken into the "Grande Armée" the troops of Austria and Prussia, but he had lowered the morale of the French forces by intermingling them with foreign contingents, so that the various Corps commanded by his marshals contained bodies of men from every part of Europe, Italians, Poles, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Croatians.
It was past one in the morning when, with the girl on his arm, he issued forth into the dark and drowsy rue des Acacias and, moving swiftly, crossed the avenue de la Grande Armee. Thereafter, avoiding main-travelled highways, they struck southward through tangled side streets to aristocratic Passy, skirted the boulevards of the fortifications, and approached the private park of La Muette.
The bond of union was sealed at a midnight military mass, celebrated by English-speaking priests, for British and French Catholic soldiers at Camp Malbrouch round the Colonne de la Grande Armée. The two names recalled the greatest of British and French victories Blenheim, Ramillies, and Oudenarde, Ulm, Austerlitz, and Jena.
The armee revolutionnaire was first raised by order of the Jacobins, for the purpose of searching the countries for provisions, and conducting them to Paris. They were divided into companies, each with its attendant Guillotine, and then distributed in the different departments: they had extraordinary pay, and seem to have been subject to no discipline.
The siege of Antwerp has begun. Here is a dialogue between the Kaiser and his belle armée. K. "I need Antwerp." A. "Your Majesty shall have Antwerp, but we need five hundred thousand men." K. "You shall have them."
"Are they advancing; or is it a retreat?" "Read that!" said she, throwing me a large sheet of paper, headed with the words, "Proclamation! la Grande Armée!" in huge letters,"read that! for I've no breath left to tell you." Soldiers! The campaign so gloriously begun will soon be completed. One victory, and the Austrian empire, so great but a week since, will be humbled in the dust.
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