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All these bodies, on leaving the First Consul, were presented to Madame Bonaparte, who received them with her accustomed grace, in, the evening Madame Bonaparte held a reception for the wives of the officials, at which the First Consul was present, of which fact some availed themselves to present to him several emigres, who had recently returned under the act of amnesty, and whom he received graciously.
He forgot that this word "stranger" was the most deadly insult that one could cast in the face of the former emigres, who had returned with the allied armies. Still the young marquis did not change his insolently nonchalant attitude. He touched the visor of his hunting cap with his finger, and replied: "It is true I have lost my way."
I am, however, happy to tell you that to-morrow I expect to put to sea for Lisbon, with the Theseus and prizes, which I am to leave in safety in the Tagus, and then proceed to England. I am to give a passage to the Duc d'Havré and his suite: he is a nobleman of distinction, who has resided some time in Spain, but has been expelled from that country with other emigrés.
By now, no doubt, he is in Germany with him, conspiring against France. For that is what the emigres are doing. That Austrian woman at the Tuileries will end by destroying the monarchy." "Yes, yes," said Andre-Louis impatiently. Politics interested him not at all this morning. "But about Gavrillac?" "Why, haven't I told you that Gavrillac is at Meudon, installed in the house his brother has left?
Does he again lay down his arms, you do the same, without thinking of any means of forestalling his ambition; and placing yourself beyond the reach of his attacks. Thus you are at the orders of your enemy, and he it is who commands your army. "And I, I tell you the same of the emigrés.
The eastern frontier is of course the safest to cross, but the distance is very great and, in the towns near the border, a very sharp lookout is kept to prevent emigres escaping. "There is a rumour that Lyons has declared against the Convention, but if we got there it is certain that it would be but La Vendee over again.
Olivier Dalibard, a man of considerable learning and rare scientific attainments, had been tutor in the house of the Marquis de G , a French nobleman known many years before to the old baronet. The marquis and his family had been among the first emigres at the outbreak of the Revolution.
Mme. de Chevreuse soon formed about her a circle of émigrés—Marie de' Medici, Duc La Vallette, Soubèse, La Vieuville, and many others. This coterie was in open correspondence with Spain, Austria, and the Duke of Lorraine.
In three months, at the table of the representatives who devastate la Vendee, nineteen hundred and seventy-four bottles of wine are emptied, taken from the houses of the emigres belonging to the town; for, "when one has helped to preserve a commune one has a right to drink to the Republic."
The Législative followed its attack on the émigrés by one on the priests. The clergy was discontented and, in the west, showed signs of inciting the peasantry to revolt; it was therefore decreed that every member of the clergy might be called on to take the oath to the civil constitution. This, again, the King vetoed, encouraged in his attitude by the Feuillants.
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