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Then my eyes cleared, and I saw, on the very spot where d'Aurelle had died, another body or was it the same, brought back that the tragedy of the afternoon might, in some mysterious way, be re-enacted? I remember bending over and peering into the face It was the face of Philip Vantine. A minute must have passed as I stood there dazed and shaken.
"It has occurred to me, madame, that you may have seen him that he may even be known to you." "What was his name?" "The card he sent in to Mr. Vantine bore the name of Théophile d'Aurelle." She shook her head. "I have never before heard that name, Mr. Lester."
But even if we discover the identity of Théophile d'Aurelle, it won't help us any." "Why not?" I demanded. "Because it is evident that that isn't his name." "Go ahead and tell me, Godfrey," I said, as he looked at me, smiling. "I don't see it." "Why, it's plain enough. He had five cards in his pocket, no two alike. The sixth, selected probably at random, he had sent up to Vantine."
He did so by removing La Motte-Rouge from his command, which he gave to D'Aurelle de Paladines. The latter, a general on the reserve list, with a distinguished record, was in his sixty-sixth year, having been born at Languedoc in 1804. He had abilities as an organiser, and was known to be a disciplinarian, but he was growing old, and looked confidence both in himself and in his men.
General d'Aurelle de Paladine has retaken Orleans and beaten the Prussians. Schoelcher came to inform me of it. November 15. Visit from M. Arsene Houssaye and Henri Houssaye, his son. He is going to have Stella read at his house in aid of the wounded. M. Valois came to tell me that the two readings of Les Chatiments brought in 14,000 francs. For this sum not two, but three guns can be purchased.
This money enabled me to proceed, in the first instance, in the direction of Le Mans, which the Germans were already threatening. Before referring, however, to my own experiences I must say something further respecting the general position. Had D'Aurelle pursued Von der Tann he might have turned his barren victory to good account.
According to Trochu's memoirs there was also an insufficiency of ammunition. At the very moment when the Army of Paris was in full retreat, the second battle of Orleans was beginning. Gambetta and Freyoinet wished D'Aurelle to advance with the Loire Army in order to meet the Parisians, who, if victorious, were expected to march on Fontainebleau by way of Melun.
When at last I got up to stretch myself, I noticed, affixed to the wall against which I had been leaning, a proclamation of Gambetta's respecting D'Aurelle de Paladines' victory over Von der Tann at Orleans.
The former retired in the direction of Bourges and Nevers, whilst Chanzy, who was now placed in chief command of the others, D'Aurelle being removed from his post, withdrew gradually towards the forest of Marchenoir. In that second battle of Orleans the French lost 20,000 men, but 18,000 of them were taken prisoners.
The critics of the camp have said that the spot was very damp and muddy, and therefore necessarily unhealthy, and there is truth in that assertion; but the same might be remarked of all the camps of the period, notably that of D'Aurelle de Paladines in front of Orleans. Among them were 264 cases of small-pox.
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