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Updated: May 12, 2025
Delessart's men are sullen and silent; a crowd of men and women from Grenoble have followed them up thus far; they work their way in and out among the infantrymen: they have printed leaflets in their hands which they cram one by one into the hands or pockets of the soldiers copies of Napoleon's proclamation. Now an officer of the Old Guard is seen to ride up the pass. Delessart recognises him.
Then Captain Raoul, own aide-de-camp to Napoleon, comes up at full gallop: nor does he draw rein till he is up with the entire front of Delessart's battalion. "Your Emperor is coming," he shouts to the soldiers, "if you fire, the first shot will reach him: and France will make you answerable for this outrage!" While he shouts and harangues the men are still sullen and silent.
Mallet protests, but Napoleon reiterates the command, more peremptorily this time, and Mallet must obey. Then at the head of his old chasseurs, thus practically disarmed, the Emperor and he is every inch an Emperor now walks straight up to Delessart's opposing troops. Hot-headed St. Genis cries: "Here he is! Fire, in Heaven's name!"
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