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Another diversion attempted by General Susbielle on November 30 led to a similar result, with a loss of 1200 men. Ducrot, however, crossed the Marne, and very desperate fighting ensued at Champigny and neighbouring localities. The weather, moreover, was extremely cold, the men had brought with them neither tents nor blankets, and had to bivouac without fires.
"They are Franc-tireurs des Écoles," the orderly, who had accompanied them, said; "the surgeon said they were all students. They deserve good treatment, Doctor, for no men could have fought better than they did. Everyone says that they saved Champigny." "Put them together, Wilson, if you can, or at any rate in pairs. They are students of the University, the art schools, and so on.
The feet oh, yes, the feet they were like waffle-irons, or frying-pans, or anything of that shape. Old Champigny did not care for women he never had; they simply did not exist for him in the order of nature.
Before the year closed, he arrived at his post, and was received with great distinction, despite the obstacles thrown in his way by Spain and other powers; the ambassador of France itself, de Champigny, having privately urged that he ought to be placed on the same footing with the envoys of Savoy and of Florence.
Two years before, the king had ordered that the Abenakis should be made to attack the English settlements. The best French account of the capture of York is that of Champigny in a letter to the minister, 5 Oct., 1692. His information came from an Abenaki chief, who was present. The journal of Villebon contains an exaggerated account of the affair, also derived from Indians.
"Ha! are you really Victor de Mauleon?" asked Monnier, not fiercely, but under his breath, in that sort of stage whisper which is the natural utterance of excited men under the mingled influence of potent drink and hoarded rage. "Certainly; I am Victor de Mauleon." "And you were in command of the company of the National Guard on the 30th of November at Champigny and Villiers?" "I was."
He ought to be happy. What can he reproach destiny with? Has he not the one he always desired for his wife? Is she not the sweetest and best of companions for him? Yes! but he knows very well that she consented to marry him in order to obey Maurice's last wish, he knows very well that Maria's heart is buried in the soldier's grave at Champigny.
La Salle's debts, at the time of his death, according to a schedule presented in 1701 to Champigny, Intendant of Canada, amounted to 106,831 livres, without reckoning interest. This cannot be meant to include all, as items are given which raise the amount much higher.
Since the reverse of Champigny there had been but one other attempt, ending in disaster like the rest, in the direction of Bourget; and the evening when the plateau of Avron was evacuated, under the fire of the heavy siege artillery battering away at the forts, Maurice was a sharer in the rage and exasperation that possessed the entire city.
Reinforcements were then brought up under General Blanchard, and the column was at length forced back, fighting hard to Champigny. To-day most of the troops in the horse-shoe crossed over the river, and are now either in the wood of Vincennes or in other portions of the line between the forts and the enceinte.
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