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Preparations were being made for a grand assault. A French engineer, Chevalier d'Arcon, had invented some enormous floating batteries, fire-proof, as he believed; a hundred and fifty pieces of cannon were to batter the place all at once, near enough to facilitate the assault.
"I had just passed over the place where men and women of a century or two ago were buried, and when I saw you and Pierre I thought of them; of Mademoiselle D'Arcon, who left a prince to follow her lover to a grave back there at Churchill, and I wondered if Grosellier " "Grosellier!" cried the girl. She was breathing quickly, excitedly. Suddenly she drew back with a little, nervous laugh.
Lady Hotham was kind enough to take me a drive, and we dined with them a very pleasant party. I picked up some anecdotes of the latter siege. Make another pilgrimage, escorted by Captain Pigot and several of his officers. See ante, vol. i. p. 253, note. Lasting from 21st June 1779 to 6th February 1783. Compare the reflection of the Chevalier d'Arcon, the contriver of the floating batteries.
Lafont page 617. US edition P. 69. "The War Committee is composed of engineer and staff-officers, of which the principal are Meussuer, Favart, St. Fief, d'Arcon, Lafitte-Clave and a few others. Andre Michel, "Correspondance de Mallet-Dupan avec la Cour de Vienne," I., 26.
"We have three, and old D'Arcon has telephoned that he will be here in five minutes." Duncombe rose to his feet. "It was really very careless of me," he said, "but I completely forgot that I had an engagement at the hotel at six o'clock. I am afraid that I shall not be able to stop." The Baron glanced quickly at his young friend.
Cambon, accordingly, in spite of the Jacobins, retains in his bureaux all whom he can among veteran officials. If Carnot manages the war well, it is owing to his being himself an educated officer and to maintaining in their positions d'Arcon, d'Obenheim, de Grimoard, de Montalembert and Marescot, all eminent men bequeathed to him by the ancient regime.
Carnot saves and employs eminent engineers, D'Arcon, de Montalembert, d'Obenheim, all of them nobles, and one of them an anti-Jacobin, without counting a number of accused officers whom he justifies, replaces, or maintains.
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