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He said that all the peasantry for ten leagues around were under arms, and that the Baron d'Escorval was the leader of the revolt. He did not doubt the final success of the movement, declaring that Napoleon II., Marie-Louise, and all the marshals of the Empire were concealed in Montaignac.
If Jean kills me there is no more to be said but if I kill him, what is to be done? "I told him he would be free to depart on condition he would give me his word not to return to Montaignac before two o'clock. "'Then I accept the challenge, said he; 'give me a weapon. "I gave him my sword, your brother drew his, and they took their places in the middle of the highway."
He died as he had sworn he would die, without even changing color calm and proud, the name of Marie-Anne upon his lips. Ah, well, there was one woman, a fair young girl, whose heart had not been touched by the sorrowful scenes of which Montaignac had been the theatre. Mlle.
It is certain that he had the good fortune to regain possession of his immense family estates; and the rank and dignities which he had gained in foreign lands were confirmed. Appointed by the king to preside at the military commission charged with arresting and trying the conspirators of Montaignac his zeal and severity resulted in the capture and conviction of all the parties implicated."
But where and how could he procure them? The police kept a close watch over the physicians and druggists in Montaignac, in the hope of discovering the wounded conspirators through them. But the cure, who had been for ten years physician and surgeon for the poor of his parish, had an almost complete set of surgical instruments and a well-filled medicine-chest.
Lacheneur news of her father. He said that his son-in-law had met the chief conspirator in the mountains which separate the arrondissement of Montaignac from Savoy. He even mentioned the exact place of meeting, which was near Saint Pavin-des-Gottes, a tiny village of only a few houses. Certainly the worthy man did not think he was committing a dangerous indiscretion.
I am sure of it, and the proof is, that he reminded me of a circumstance which occurred in my youth, and which was known only to him and me. It happened during the Reign of Terror. He was all-powerful in Montaignac; and I was accused of being in correspondence with the emigres.
Sometimes, during the long winter evenings, when they had gathered at the Boeuf Couronne, they laid down their greasy cards and gravely discussed the events of the past years. They never failed to remark that almost all the actors in that bloody drama at Montaignac had, in common parlance, "come to a bad end." Victors and vanquished seemed to be pursued by the same inexorable fatality.
But the Marquis de Courtornieu's coolness restored the duke's sang-froid. He ran to the barracks, and in less than half an hour five hundred foot-soldiers and three hundred of the Montaignac chasseurs were under arms. With these forces at his disposal it would have been easy enough to suppress this movement without the least bloodshed. It was only necessary to close the gates of the city.
Soon afterward, Father Poignot, on returning from Montaignac, reported that the duke had just passed a week in Paris, and that he was now on his way home with one more decoration another proof of royal favor and that he had succeeded in obtaining an order for the release of all the conspirators, who were now in prison.
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