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Updated: June 9, 2025
A little incident occurred at Montreuil, which I take pleasure in narrating, since it proves how carefully Napoleon examined both the fortifications and improvements being made in the towns, either by his personal orders, or from the impulse given by him to these important departments of public service.
Two circumstances of importance happened before you left Devereux Court for London; the one was the introduction to your service of Jean Desmarais, the second was your breach with Montreuil. I speak now of the first. A very early friend did the priest possess, born in the same village as himself and in the same rank of life; he had received a good education and possessed natural genius.
And when I recalled the impression which the man had made upon me, an impression certainly not favourable to the elevation or the rigid honesty of his mind, I could not but imagine that one or the other of these means Montreuil found far from difficult of success.
At five in the morning a mounted messenger brought a despatch from Salomon, saying that he had fought for four hours near Montreuil, against a large force of the enemy; and that, another column of these having fallen on his rear, he found it necessary to retire, as a panic was spreading among the National Guard, and a serious disaster would have happened, had he continued his attempts to push on.
From the rising ground, above the building of Père La Chaise, a most delightful view displays itself. The city of Paris appears to stand in the centre of a vast amphitheatre. The heights of Belleville, Montmartre, and Ménilmontant, in the west. To the east, the beautiful plain of Saint-Mandé, Montreuil, and Vincennes, with the lofty towers of its fortress.
Its terrors haunt me at this hour; they people the earth and the air with shapes of ghastly menace! They Heaven pardon me! what would my madness utter? Madness? madness? Ay, that is the real scourge, the real fire, the real torture, the real hell, of this fair earth! Montreuil, then, by different pleas, won over Gerald and myself. He left us, but engaged us in constant correspondence.
Edward indeed abandoned his Flemish allies, but Philip would not relax his hold upon Gascony, and without that a definitive peace was impossible. The treaty of Montreuil was simply a marriage treaty. Edward was forthwith to marry Margaret, and his son was to be betrothed to Isabella of France.
I had a sweet ride for the remaining way to Montreuil by moon-light, accompanied by two gentlemen on horseback, who lived in that town. They related to me many melancholy incidents during the revolutionary period.
Fauxbourg St. Germain You cannot imagine, honest Aby, the surprise I am in. Is this their famous France? Is this the finest country in the whole world? Why, Aby, from Boulogne to Paris, at least from Montreuil, I am certain I did not see a single hedge! All one dead flat; with an eternal row of trees, without beginning, middle, or end.
And when I recalled the impression which the man had made upon me, an impression certainly not favourable to the elevation or the rigid honesty of his mind, I could not but imagine that one or the other of these means Montreuil found far from difficult of success.
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