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Updated: June 2, 2025
"When Madame des Tours-Minieres learned from Bordin that her appeal was rejected and that nothing could save her, that sublime little woman had the courage to write twenty letters, dating them month by month after the time of her execution, so as to make her poor mother in her prison believe she was alive. In those letters she told of a gradual illness which would end in death.
"Can you tell me Madame de la Chanterie's history?" "Impossible, without her consent," replied Monsieur Alain; "for it is connected with one of the most terrible events of Imperial policy. It was through my friend Bordin that I first knew Madame. He had in his possession all the secrets of that noble life; it was he who, if I may say so, led me to this house."
"Is that really all?" asked Bordin when Laurence had related the events of the drama just as the present narrative has given them up to the present time. "Yes," she answered. Profound silence reigned for several minutes in the salon of the Chargeboeuf mansion where this scene took place, one of the most important which occur in life.
"No, sir, you have no right to show us crime without putting beside it a corrective without presenting to us a lesson." Vaucorbeil thought also that art ought to have an object to aim at the improvement of the masses. "Let us chant science, our discoveries, patriotism," and he broke into admiration of Casimir Delavigne. Madame Bordin praised the Marquis de Foudras.
God in his mercy willed that, in spite of the fearful storms which have cruelly ravaged the land of France, now become a great Empire, the archives of the very celebrated Practice of Maitre Bordin should be preserved; and we, the undersigned, clerks of the very virtuous and very worthy Maitre Bordin, do not hesitate to attribute this unheard-of preservation, when all titles, privileges, and charters were lost, to the protection of Sainte-Genevieve, patron Saint of this office, and also to the reverence which the last of the procureurs of noble race had for all that belonged to ancient usages and customs.
I shall act according to your answer. Your obedient servant, Alain. No answer. We were then in 1799; one year, all but two months, had expired. At the end of those two months I went to Bordin. Bordin took the note, had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me.
He made no fire except in the coldest winter, and then only enough to get up by. Between eleven and four o'clock he walked about, went to read the papers, and paid visits. In truth, one of the Alencon bankers paid him every three months one hundred and fifty francs, sent down by Monsieur Bordin of Paris, the last of the procureurs du Chatelet.
The servants and Madame Bordin were breaking into exclamations, the widow's screams being the loudest; and at sight of them she cried: "Ha! this is very fortunate! I have been waiting for you for the last three hours! My poor garden has not a single tulip left! Filth everywhere on the grass! No way of getting rid of him!" "Who is it?" "Père Gouy."
Bordin informed the family that the six accused men were "well supported," using a professional term. "Monsieur de Grandville will defend Michu," said Bordin. "Michu!" exclaimed the Marquis de Chargeboeuf, amazed at the change. "He is the pivot of the affair the danger lies there," replied the old lawyer. "If he is more in danger than the others, I think that is just," cried Laurence.
One morning, after the opening of the court-room and before the arrival of the judges, Pille-Miche, a famous Chouan, sprang over the balustrade into the middle of the crowd, elbowing right and left, 'charging like a wild boar, as Bordin told me, through the frightened people.
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