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Helena Comparison of dates Possibility of my having saved the Due d'Enghien's life Advice given to the Duc d'Enghien Sir Charles Stuart Delay of the Austrian Cabinet Pichegru and the mysterious being M. Massias The historians of St. Helena Bonaparte's threats against the emigrants and M. Cobentzel Singular adventure of Davoust's secretary The quartermaster The brigand of La Vendee.
The individual above-mentioned was afterwards discovered to be an agent of the Paris police, who had been commissioned to draw the Princes into a plot which would have ruined them, for public feeling revolts at assassination under any circumstances. It has been alleged that Louis XVIII.'s refusal to treat with Bonaparte led to the fatal catastrophe of the Due d'Enghien's death.
I went before the Prince with a lantern. Feeling the cold air which came up the staircase he pressed my arm and said, 'Are they going to put me into a dungeon?" The rest is known. I can yet see Harrel shuddering while thinking of this action of the Prince's. Much has been said about a lantern which it is pretended was attached to one of the Due d'Enghien's button-holes. This is a pure invention.
Another circumstance connected with the Due d'Enghien's death has been mentioned, which is true. The Prince had a little dog; this faithful animal returned incessantly to the fatal spot in the moat. There are few who have not seen that spot. Who has not made a pilgrimage to Vincennes and dropped a tear where the victim fell?
Bonaparte's wish to negotiate with England and Austria An emigrant's letter Domestic details The bell Conspiracy of Ceracchi, Arena, Harrel, and others Bonaparte's visit to the opera Arrests Rariel appointed commandant of Vincennes The Duc d'Enghien's foster-sister The 3d Nivoise First performance of Haydn's "Creation" The infernal machine Congratulatory addresses Arbitrary condemnations M. Tissot erased from the list of the banished M. Truguet Bonapartes' hatred of the Jacobins explained The real criminals discovered Justification of Fouche Execution of St.
The immediate consequences of the Duc d'Enghien's death were not confined to the general consternation which that unjustifiable stroke of state policy produced in the capital. The news spread rapidly through the provinces and foreign countries, and was everywhere accompanied by astonishment and sorrow.
This was more than a mere literary question, not only on account of the high literary reputation M. de Chateaubriand already possessed, but of the recollection of his noble conduct at the period of Duc d'Enghien's death, which was yet fresh in the memory of every one; and, besides, no person could be ignorant of the immeasurable difference of opinion between Chenier and M. de Chateaubriand.
As to this part of their conduct, the proofs are abundant, clear, and irrefragable. But it is very possible that Buonaparte entertained the foul suspicion on which he justifies his violence. And indeed it is only by supposing him to have sincerely believed that the Bourbons were plotting against his life, that we can at all account for the shedding of D'Enghien's blood.
Helena Comparison of dates Possibility of my having saved the Due d'Enghien's life Advice given to the Duc d'Enghien Sir Charles Stuart Delay of the Austrian Cabinet Pichegru and the mysterious being M. Massias The historians of St. Helena Bonaparte's threats against the emigrants and M. Cobentzel Singular adventure of Davoust's secretary The quartermaster The brigand of La Vendee.
Supposing one were inclined to admit that the Council held on the 10th of March had some connection with the Due d'Enghien's arrest, yet as no Council was held from the time of the Duke's arrival at the barrier to the moment of his execution, it could only be Bonaparte himself who issued the orders which were too punctually obeyed.
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