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The King, as M. de Lauzun well knew, had an aversion to grey, and nobody had worn it for several years. When, therefore, on the day of the review he saw Tesse in a hat of that colour, with a black feather, and a huge cockade dangling and flaunting above, he called to him, and asked him why he wore it. Tesse replied that it was the privilege of the colonel-general to wear that day a grey hat.
The soldiers were excessively eager for the assault. Sir John Norris came to Leicester to receive his orders as to the command of the attacking party. The Earl referred the matter to him. "There is no man," answered Sir John, "fitter for that purpose than myself; for I am colonel-general of the infantry."
At ten o'clock in the morning, a discharge of artillery announced the departure of the Emperor; and his Majesty left his barrack, surrounded by more than eighty generals and two hundred aides-decamp, all his household following him. The Emperor was dressed in the uniform of the colonel-general of the infantry of the guard.
"Oh!" cried Chicot, with a sudden illumination, "I know these gentlemen." "Really!" "Forty-five beggars, who only want the wallet; figures to make one die with laughter." "Chicot, there are splendid men among them." "Gascons, like your colonel-general of infantry." "And like you, Chicot. However, I have forty-five formidable swords at command." "Commanded by the 46th, whom they call D'Epernon."
"I ambitiously affect not high titles, but round dealing," he said; "desiring rather to be a private lance with indifferent reputation, than a colonel-general spotted or defamed with wants."
He thanked her for what she had done for him, in granting him her colours, and upon that Mademoiselle asked his permission to embrace him, and to tell him how amiable and worthy of belonging to the King she found him. She led him to the hall, in which he was to be seen represented as a colonel-general of Swiss.
"Well, then, sire, I have a favor to ask." "I should be astonished if you had not." "Your majesty is bitter to-day." "Oh! I only mean, that having rendered me a service, you have the right to ask for a return." "Well, sire, it is an appointment." "Why, you are already colonel-general of infantry, more would crush you." "In your majesty's service, I am a Samson." "What is it, then?"
Lord Essex was general of the cavalry, Sir William Pelham a distinguished soldier, who had recently arrived out of England, after the most urgent solicitations to the Queen, for that end, by Leicester was lord-marshal of the camp, and Sir John Norris was colonel-general of the infantry.
This same period had seen the fall of the Duke of Istria, one of the four colonel-generals of the guard, and Marshal Duroc: and this same appointment included the names of their successors; for Marshal Suchet was appointed at the same time as General Bertrand, and took the place of Marshal Bessieres as colonel-general of the guard. Served in the Italian campaign in 1796.
The counter-police of the chateau had denounced to her Royal Highness Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orleans, who made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of dragoons a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense.
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