Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 27, 2025
"The surgeon who examined him in Pirmil said so; indeed, Cathelineau never doubted it himself. He told me, as soon as he could speak, that he should never live to see the Republic at an end. 'But, added he, 'you, Foret, and others will; and it delights me to think that I have given my life to so good a cause."
We raised him up between us, and carried him back to a part of the town which was in our hands, and from thence over the Pont Rousseau to Pirmil, where I left him for a while, and returned to the town, but I could not get the peasants to follow me again that is, his peasants; and he was too weak to speak to them himself. It was not till two hours after that he was able to speak a word."
Our hearts were nearly broken, and our arms were weak; it ended in our retreating to Pirmil, and leaving the town in the hands of the republicans." "How truly spoke that General who said, 'build a bridge of gold for a flying enemy!" said de Lescure. "And is Cathelineau's wound so surely mortal?" asked Henri.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking