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Updated: June 21, 2025
M. Laguerre was a deputy who supported Boulanger in the Chamber against his enemies. Two gentlemen present had that afternoon seen M. Grévy, who had implored them to find some leader who would form a ministry; already had M. Clemenceau been thought of, but he was undecided.
"Where are the guns?" he asked. Apparently Aiken felt more confidence in General Laguerre than in his officers, for at this second questioning he answered promptly. "I regret to say, sir," he began, "that the guns were seized at New Orleans. Someone informed the Honduranian Consul there, and he " "Seized!" cried Laguerre. "By whom? Do you mean we have lost them?"
Mademoiselle Laguerre betrayed, through mere selfishness, the interests of those who owned property, who are held in perpetual hatred by those who own none. Since 1792 the land-owners of Paris have become of necessity a combined body.
There, too, was Le Brun, the painter, discussing art in a small circle which contained his fellow-workers Verrio and Laguerre, the architects Blondel and Le Notre, and sculptors Girardon, Puget, Desjardins, and Coysevox, whose works had done so much to beautify the new palace of the king.
Garcia's troops had marched in, and were raising a great hullabaloo, cheering and shouting, and embracing the townspeople, whom they had known during their former occupation, and many of whom were the same people who had been firing at us. I found Laguerre in counsel with Garcia, who was in high spirits, and feeling exceedingly pleased with himself.
"You do not know that," he said; but his voice trembled, and his face was drawn in lines of deep concern. "I warned you!" Aiken cried, roughly. "I warned you yesterday; I told you to send Macklin to Pecachua." He turned on me and held me by the sleeve, but like Laguerre he still continued to look fearfully toward the mountain. "They came to me last night, Graham came to me," he whispered.
I have gathered, my dear fellow, much precious information about the old age of Mademoiselle Laguerre; for, to tell you the truth, the after life of such women as Florine, Mariette, Suzanne de Val Noble, and Tullia has made me, every now and then, extremely inquisitive, as though I were a child inquiring what had become of the old moons.
Now that he knew the worst, the doubt and concern on the face of General Laguerre fell from it like a mask. "We have no guns that will reach the mountain, have we?" he asked. He spoke as calmly as though we were changing guard. "No, not one," I answered. "All our heavy pieces are on Pecachua." "Then we must take it by assault," he said.
Vertue thinks that Sir James was indebted to Laguerre for his knowledge of historical painting on ceilings, etc. For decorating the staircase of the South Sea Company's House, Sir James received only twenty-five shillings per square yard. By speculating in the shares of the same Company, it may be stated that another artist, Sir Godfrey Kneller, lost £20,000.
He was so eager and so suddenly humble that I felt ashamed of my display of offended honor, and we began again with a better understanding. I told him once more why I had come, and this time he accepted my story as though he considered my wishing to join Laguerre the most natural thing in the world, nodding his head and muttering approvingly.
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