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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Shall I see you again, general?" he asked, rising. "I doubt it, sir. My operations call me to the coast near Port-Louis; your duty recalls you to the Luxembourg." "What shall I tell the First Consul, general?" "What you have seen, sir. He must judge between the Abbe Bernier's diplomacy and that of Georges Cadoudal."
Brown-Séquard, as the outstanding figure in the history of the glands of internal secretion, deserves some notice as a personality. In the words of the note-makers for novels and plays, he was a card. He was born in 1817 at Port-Louis, on the island of Mauritius, off Africa, then French property. His father was a Mr. Brown, an American sea captain; his mother a Mme. Séquard, a Frenchwoman.
Not withstanding this disaster, the French ministry persisted in their design; towards the execution of which they had prepared another considerable fleet, in the harbours of Rochefort, Brest, and Port-Louis, to be commanded by M. de Conflans, and reinforced by a considerable body of troops, which were actually assembled under the duc d'Aiguillon, at Vannes, in Lower Bretagne.
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