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The story was that I was a nephew of the prince, and that on account of impaired health, I was obliged to go into the country and must be tended with great care. I had a preceptor there who gave me instruction, and sometimes the brave General Charette came to the palace on a visit. He was always very polite to me, and showed me all kinds of attention.
But there had been a moment in the day during which fortune wavered, and the lost cause owed its ruin to the absence of Charette. Stofflet and La Rochejaquelein led the retreat from Cholet to the Loire. It was a day's march, and there was no pursuit. Bonchamps was still living when they came to the river, and still able to give one last order.
M. Charette was requested to bring up all the men he could collect from the Marais, a part of La Vendee which lies close upon the sea. M. Bonchamps was invited to join them from Angers.
It was in the winter of 1803 that these two men came to Boone's Settlement, as La Charette was now generally called. They had planned to make their winter camp there, for in the spring, when the Missouri rose to the flood, they and their company of frontiersmen were to take their way up that uncharted stream and over plains and mountains in quest of the Pacific Ocean.
"I told you there was something," she murmured triumphantly. "Hush!" said I. "I am glad to find that he had one true defender here," pursued the biographer of Plooie. "Though he could not fight in the ranks there was use for him. There was use for all true sons of Belgium in those black days. He was made driver of a a charette; I do not know if you have them in your great city?"
"There is a report that Captain Charette has gathered nearly twenty thousand peasants, in lower Poitou; and that he has already gained a success over the Blues. There are reports, too, of risings in Brittany." "There is no doubt that things are going on well, at present, Patsey.
He, General Charette, had believed it at first. There he convinced himself that the boy bore no resemblance to the little Louis Charles whom he had once seen at the Tuileries and that he certainly was not the son of Louis XVI." "He told me only too truly that he would have his revenge," whispered the young prince.
But everywhere they were met. Charette had marched to the aid of the Vendeans of the north, and the country was divided into four districts, commanded by Charette, Bonchamp, Lescure, and la Rochejaquelein. Each of these strove to defend his own district. The war now assumed a terrible aspect.
There were four other Kentucky families at La Charette, as the French inhabitants called the post, but these were the only Americans. The Spanish authorities granted Boone 840 acres of land, and here Daniel built the last cabin home he was to erect for himself and his Rebecca. The region pleased him immensely. The governmental system, for instance, was wholly to his mind. Taxes were infinitesimal.
French blood was spilled: the crime, as well as the disgrace, fell this day upon the Sections. "Among the dead were everywhere to be recognized emigrants, landowners, and nobles; the prisoners consisted for the most part of the 'chouans' of Charette. "Nevertheless the Sections did not consider themselves beaten: they took refuge in the church of St.
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