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Lavinia poked about the house, and soon satisfied herself that it abounded in every species of what Fanny Kemble calls 'entomological inconvenience, and an atmosphere admirably calculated to introduce cholera to the inhabitants of Moulins.
Writing a hundred years ago, the great agriculturist, Arthur Young, gave his countrymen the following excellent piece of advice, which, it need hardly be said, has been generally neglected from that day to this: 'It may be useful to those who see no more of France than by once passing to Italy, to remark that if they would view the finest parts of the kingdom they should land at Dieppe, and follow the Seine to Paris, then take the great road to Moulins, and thence quit it for Auvergne, and pass to Viviers, the Rhone, and so by Aix to Italy.
A good house, such a one as is usually inhabited by the lawyer, the apothecary, or a gentleman of five or six hundred per annum, in the country towns in England, is at Moulins from twelve to fourteen pounds per year, including garden and paddock. Our inn at Moulins, however, was horrible: our beds would have frightened any one but an experienced traveller.
Neither Moulins, Barras nor myself, have handed in our resignations." At that moment a paper was slipped in Bonaparte's hand, and a voice said in his ear: "Read it." He did so; then said aloud: "You, yourself, are mistaken. Barras has resigned, for here is his resignation. The law requires three Directors to make a Directory.
"Only, you see as one gets nearer...." He went on to say that, when he had been sent from the ambulance at the front to a hospital at Moulins, he had been for a day or two in a ward next to some wounded German soldiers bad cases, they were and had heard them talking.
He remained at Montpelier until June, 1671, and thereafter resided at Moulins, until the spring of 1674. We have no details of his life in exile. We only know enough to show that it was one of no listless indolence, no craven depression, and no vain repining.
What were the anxious longings for a treasure in my view only, not in my possession to the deep joy of finding it for ever my own! It was from the exemplary Job Jonson; and though I did not even open it on that day, yet it shall be more favoured by the reader viz. if he will not pass over, without reading, the following effusion "Rue des Moulins, No., Paris. "Honoured Sir,
I am exactly like you, my lord I say my lord, because I presume you are English." "Yes, sir," replied the gentleman, "I have that honor." "Well! as I was saying," continued the young man, "I am delighted to travel in France and see what I am seeing. One must live under the government of citizens Gohier, Moulins, Roger Ducos, Sieyes and Barras to witness such roguery.
With anybody but the king the constable was a good deal more than short-tempered the chancellor, Duprat, who happened to be at Moulins, and who had a wish to become possessed of two estates belonging to the constable, tried to worm himself into his good graces; but Bourbon gave him sternly to understand with what contempt he regarded him, and Duprat, who had hitherto been merely the instrument of Louise of Savoy's passions, so far as the duke was concerned, became henceforth his personal enemy, and did not wait long for an opportunity of making the full weight of his enmity felt.
"There are no manufacturers at Moulins to enrich the people, and, what with high rents and low prices, the half-profit system does not pay. If money is made, it is by the tenant-farmer, not by the metayer." Curious and instructive is the fact that the most Catholic and aristocratic centres in France should often be the poorest; Moulins and the Allier afford but one example out of many.
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