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Updated: May 8, 2025
The public went there to get information. Detesting, as I did, tranquillity, I used to send my man-servant to copy the telegrams. Oh, how grievous was that terrible telegram from Saint-Privat, informing us laconically of the frightful butchery; of the heroic defence of Marshal Canrobert; and of Bazaine's first treachery in not going to the rescue of his comrade.
"Filth, manure, offal, dead carcasses, had been allowed to accumulate to such an extent, that we found, on our arrival, in March, 1855, it would have required the labor of three hundred men to remove the local causes of disease before the warm weather set in." General Airey said: "The French General Canrobert came to me, complaining of the condition in which his men were.
"I wish I could think so," replied Canrobert. "Well, but listen to the message my aide-de-camp has brought from General Pennefather. What did he say, Calthorpe?" "General Pennefather, my lord, says he only wants a few fresh troops to follow the enemy up now, and lick them to the devil. These are his very words, my lord."
It was a splendid sight, as the allied army got in motion. On the extreme right, and in advance next the sea, was the first division of the French army. Behind them, also by the sea, was the second division under General Canrobert, on the left of which marched the third division under Prince Napoleon. The fourth division and the Turks formed the rearguard.
Deprived of everything, and hardly convinced by that marshal that we lacked nothing, we growled in chorus when he talked of repressing our complaints by force: "Ran, plan, plan, a hundred thousand men afoot, to Paris, to Paris!" 4 Canrobert, a brave and distinguished veteran, head of the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Rhine.
During May, my mother was made very happy by the release of her eldest brother from the Temple prison, and the return to France of the other two, de l'Isle and de la Coste, who, having been struck off the list of émigrés came to Paris. The eldest of my mother's brothers, M. de Canrobert was a very pleasant, sensible man.
There were no fresh troops to bring up; only the Third Division remained in reserve, and it was fully occupied in guarding the trenches. The French, it is true, could have thrown the weight of many thousands into the scale; but General Canrobert had not set his more distant divisions in motion, and the only troops that could affect the struggle Bosquet's were still far to the rear.
Bosquet had now come up with his brigade, and D'Autemarre, released by Gortschakoff's retreat, had followed with a second. There were thus some seven or eight thousand French available. Still Canrobert was disinclined to move. He was now with Lord Raglan on the Ridge, with his arm in a sling, for he had just been struck by a shrapnel-shell.
Thus the eldest son was given the name Canrobert: this eldest son was, at the time of which I write, Chevalier de St. Louis and a captain in the infantry regiment of Penthièvre; the second son who was called de L'Isle was a lieutenant in the same regiment; the third son, who had the surname La Coste served, like my father, in the Royal Bodyguard; the daughter was called Mlle.
"Does the French commander-in-chief approve of it, sir?" "General Canrobert does; but I think we have nearly seen the last of him. I expect any day to hear that he has given up the command." "Who will succeed him, sir?" "Pélissier, I believe a very different sort of man, as we shall see."
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