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Updated: May 17, 2025
Down below behind the farm buildings of La Haye Sainte two battalions of chasseurs of the Old Guard had made a stand around a tattered bit of tricolour and the bronze eagle symbol of so much decadent grandeur and of such undying glory. "A moi chasseurs," brave Général Pelet had cried. "Let us save the eagle or die beneath its wing."
I broke from M. Pelet, and as I strode down the passage he followed me with one of his laughs a very French, rakish, mocking sound. Again I stood at the neighbouring door, and soon was re-admitted into the cheerful passage with its clear dove-colour imitation marble walls.
"Bien! bien!" interrupted I for all this chatter and circumlocution began to bore me very much; "I will consult M. Pelet, and the thing shall be settled as you desire. Good evening, mesdames I am infinitely obliged to you." "Comment! vous vous en allez deja?" exclaimed Madame Pelet. "Prenez encore quelquechose, monsieur; une pomme cuite, des biscuits, encore une tasse de cafe?"
I turned the door-handle, and in an instant had crossed the fatal threshold, closed the door behind me, and stood in the presence of Madame Pelet. Gracious heavens! The first view of her seemed to confirm my worst apprehensions.
None of the officers who escaped from the disaster, nor any of the authors who have written about it have been able to show that any of the senior staff of the army took steps to establish new crossing points or to ensure free use of those which existed. General Pelet does not disclose the name of the general to whom the Emperor gave this order, although it would be most important to know it.
Venez a la salle-a-manger, que je vous gronde un peu." "I beg pardon, monsieur," said I, as I followed him to his private sitting-room, "for having returned so late it was not my fault." "That is just what I want to know," rejoined M. Pelet, as he ushered me into the comfortable parlour with a good wood-fire for the stove had now been removed for the season.
At one time the inequality of the ground caused his ranks to open a little; and in an instant the Prussian horseman were on them, and striving to capture the eagle. Captain Siborne relates the conduct of Pelet with the admiration worthy of one brave soldier for another:
* The Jacobins and the Moderates, who could agree in nothing else, were here perfectly in unison; so that on the same day we see the usual invectives of Barrere succeeded by menaces equally ridiculous from Pelet and Tallien "La seule chose dont nous devons nous occuper est d'ecraser ce gouvernement infame." Discours de Pelet, 14 Nov.
"He is; but in the meantime, if his gossip be founded on less than fact if you took no particular interest in Miss Zoraide why, O youthful pedagogue! did you leave your place in consequence of her becoming Madame Pelet?" "Because " I felt my face grow a little hot; "because in short, Mr. Hunsden, I decline answering any more questions," and I plunged my hands deep in my breeches pocket.
Gudule's deep bell, tolling slowly two, marked the moment for which I had been waiting. At the foot of the narrow back-stairs that descended from my room, I met M. Pelet. "Comme vous avez l'air rayonnant!" said he. "Je ne vous ai jamais vu aussi gai. Que s'est-il donc passe?" "Apparemment que j'aime les changements," replied I. "Ah! je comprends c'est cela-soyez sage seulement.
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