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Updated: June 18, 2025
Bonaparte's wish to negotiate with England and Austria An emigrant's letter Domestic details The bell Conspiracy of Ceracchi, Arena, Harrel, and others Bonaparte's visit to the opera Arrests Rariel appointed commandant of Vincennes The Duc d'Enghien's foster-sister The 3d Nivoise First performance of Haydn's "Creation" The infernal machine Congratulatory addresses Arbitrary condemnations M. Tissot erased from the list of the banished M. Truguet Bonapartes' hatred of the Jacobins explained The real criminals discovered Justification of Fouche Execution of St.
In 1799, during Talleyrand's disgrace, Truguet returned here, and, after in vain challenging his enemy to fight, caned him in the Luxembourg gardens, a chastisement which our premier bore with true Christian patience. Truguet is not even a member of the Legion of Honour. Villeneuve is supposed not much inferior in talents, experience, and modesty to Truguet.
Ganteaume does not possess either the intriguing character of Truguet or the valorous one of Villeneuve. Before the Revolution he was a mate of a merchantman, but when most of the officers of the former royal navy had emigrated or perished, he was, in 1793, made a captain of the republican navy, and in 1796 an admiral.
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