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Updated: June 18, 2025
"To find Bonhomme Le Brun, who superintends the boating interest. 'Bonhomme' 'Good Man' is a kind of jocular name we give to every simple old fellow. 'Le Brun' is not quite correct either. His real name or rather the only one extant among the noms-de-guerre of his predecessors, is Vadeboncoeur 'Go willingly, which the Notaries I suppose would write 'Vadeboncoeur dit Le Brun."
Ever-cheerful François, so full of life, so faithful, well named "Vadeboncoeur," lies motionless upon the highway, deadly white, with glazed, half-closed eyes. Blood trickles from his open mouth, scatters from a frightful gash over his forehead, and bathes the ground in a dark pool; and a heavy stone lies near and relates its murderous tale.
At sunset of the day before the Election, Chamilly came over very tired from the Institution and ordered tea to be brought out on the lawn. Little Breboeuf sat with them; the visiting politicians also; and last, least, and highly delighted at the honor, Francois Vadeboncoeur dit Le Brun. To-morrow is the election day. "How do we stand, Zotique?" Chamilly asked, with some air of fatigue.
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