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Rapid phrases succeeded one another on his lips. "We shall soon take Perpignan," he said to Fabert, who stood at some distance. "Well, Cardinal, Lorraine is ours," he added to La Vallette. Then, touching Mazarin's arm: "It is not so difficult to manage a State as is supposed, eh?"
Lewis XIII. by the advice of his Prime Minister, sent Cardinal De la Vallette at the head of an army into Germany; and concluded a treaty with the Duke of Weimar, engaging to pay him a subsidy of one million five hundred thousand Livres, and the sum of four millions yearly for maintaining an army of eighteen thousand men, which the Duke obliged himself to furnish, and command under the direction of France.
With you I should not fear Cardinal Albornos, or all the Borgias in the world no, nor all the efforts of their Spain with the Holy Father." How say you, my dear lord?" addressing himself to the Cardinal de la Vallette, who now approached, fortunately without having heard the late allusion to himself.
They found that Wurmser had forced their rear-guards from their posts: that of Massena, under Pigeon, had retired in good order to Lonato; that of Augereau, under Vallette, had retreated in confusion, abandoning Castiglione to the Austrians.
The Marechal made a profound bow, fell back behind the chair of the minister, and gave place to the Cardinal de la Vallette, who, incessantly bowing and flattering and swearing devotion and entire obedience to the Cardinal, as if to expiate the obduracy of his father, the Duc d'Epernon, received in return a few vague words, to no meaning or purpose, the Cardinal all the while looking toward the door, to see who should follow.
I flattered him with a picture of private life, the pleasures of the country, and the charms of Malmaison; and I left him with his head full of pastoral dreams. In a word, I am very well satisfied with my day's work. Good-night, Bourrienne; we shall see what will turn up to-morrow." On the 19th I went to St. Cloud with my friend La Vallette.
Bonaparte adds that when Bottot, the confidential agent of Barras, came to Passeriano, after the 18th Fructidor, he declared to him that as soon as La Vallette should make him acquainted with the real state of things the money should be transmitted. The inaccuracy of these statements will be seen in the correspondence relative to the event.
The presidents of Nismes, Novion, and Bellievre have revealed to you their courageous but fruitless resistance to the condemnation to death of the Duke de la Vallette. "The presidents and councils of sovereign courts have been imprisoned, banished, suspended a thing before unheard of because they have raised their voices for the king or for the public.
March 17, 1800, puncturing a card with a pin, he shows Bourrienne the place where he intends to beat Melas, at San Juliano. M. de La Vallette, "Memoires," II., p. 35.
The royalists of the interior Bonaparte's intention of marching on Paris with 25,000 men His animosity against the emigrants and the Clichy Club His choice between the two parties of the Directory Augereau's order of the day against the word 'Monsieur' Bonaparte wishes to be made one of the five Directors He supports the majority of the Directory La Vallette, Augereau, and Bernadotte sent to Paris Interesting correspondence relative to the 18th Fructidor.
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