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Updated: May 11, 2025
The generals must have thought I was crazy, but as soon as they had gone, the officers of the regiment gathered round the colonel and Captain B *, and soon realised what had happened. They laughed as I had done, but in easier circumstances. In the evening, the commandant Blancheville attended a reception given by Madame Gudin.
Blancheville, before the revolution, had been on the staff of the gendarmes of Lunéville. He was very well educated and took a great interest in young officers whom he thought capable of learning, and compelled them to study whether they liked it or not.
During the two weeks I stayed with them, I was treated as a member of the family rather than as a boarder. The regiment was up to strength and well mounted. We had many exercises which I found very interesting; though I sometimes found myself up before squadron commander Blancheville, an excellent officer, an old soldier from whom I learned to work with precision, and I owe much to him.
General Bourcier, who was also there, having brought up the subject of what he called my escapade, M. Blancheville explained the reasons for my unseemly laughter, an explanation which gave rise to much amusement.
I have never forgotten this reply, and I made use of it when I became a colonel. In fact old Blancheville had drawn our horoscopes accurately, Gavoille became a lieutenant-colonel, Dumonts a brigadier-general and I a divisional general. On my arrival at Toulouse, I had exchanged the horse which I had bought in Spain for a delightful mount from Navarre.
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