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Updated: June 16, 2025
The greater portion of the crew of the Vengeur were taken off by the boats of the Alfred, Culloden, and Rattler, but she sank before all could be rescued, and two hundred of her crew, most of whom were wounded, were drowned. Among the survivors were Captain Renaudin and his son.
To this letter was addressed a note from Madame de Renaudin to her brother and to her sister-in-law.
Sulpice suddenly turned round, approached Renaudin, and said to him sharply: "You bowed more obsequiously to me a short time since, monsieur! It seems to me that you were in the ministerial antechambers every morning!" He expected a haughty reply from Renaudin, and that this man would have compensated him for the others. Monsieur Eugène smiled as he answered: "Why, I am still there, monsieur!"
Undoubtedly it would have been more gratifying to him if the choice of the marquis had fallen upon his eldest daughter, and he makes this known very clearly in his answer to Madame de Renaudin.
Perhaps she had but followed the dictates of her heart, perhaps against her will a sentiment of joy had passed over her at the death of the poor marchioness, for, by this death, one at least of the two obstacles intervening between Madame de Renaudin and the Marquis de Beauharnais had been removed.
In this condition she must have sunk before long. The engagement was over it was six o'clock at night. The English warships Alfred and Culloden, and the Rattler, cutter, came to the Vengeur's assistance, and set to work, with the few of their boats which had not been smashed during the fight, to save Renaudin, her plucky captain, and his son, first of all, and then take off the crew.
The marquis owned a superb hotel in Paris, in Thevenot Street, and there, during winter, he resided with his two sons and the Baroness de Renaudin, the mother, the guardian of his two orphan sons, the friend, the confidante, the companion of his quiet life, entirely devoted to study, to the arts, to the sciences, and to household pleasures.
His wife, during her residence in Martinique, had been the most tender friend of Madame de Renaudin, and when the marchioness bore a second son to her husband, Madame de Renaudin had stood as godmother, and promised to love and protect the child of her friend as if she were his mother.
Even Josephine's father-in-law, as well as her aunt Madame de Renaudin, who, after her husband's death, had been married to the Marquis de Beauharnais had both in the revolutionary storms lost all their property, and saw themselves reduced to the last extremity.
However, she was not alone; her aunt, Madame de Renaudin, accompanied her, and every day came the Marquis de Beauharnais, her husband's father, bringing her the children, who, during the time of the unfortunate process, were to remain at Noisy, under the guardianship of their grandfather and of a worthy governess.
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