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The Marquis du Vissard, eldest brother of the Chevalier, was created peer of France and loaded with honors by the king. The brother of Monsieur d'Herbomez was made a count and receiver-general. The poor banker Pannier died of grief at the galleys. Boislaurier died without children, a lieutenant-general and governor of a royal chateau.
"He received from Amedee du Vissard a miniature of Madame des Tours-Minieres, the only portrait of her that exists; therefore, the abbe became almost sacred in Madame de la Chanterie's eyes when she re-entered social existence." "When did that happen?" asked Godefroid. "Why, at the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
They will sneer at a loyal Vendean or a brave Chouan, because he is old and the sword he drew for the good cause dangles on his withered legs, palsied with exposure. Can you say that we are wrong in feeling thus?" "You talk well, Monsieur du Vissard, but you are over hasty," replied the marquis. "Listen, marquis," said the Comte de Bauvan, in a whisper.
The investigation has lasted one year; but the evidence, which has followed the crime step by step, has thrown the clearest light on its preparation, execution, and results. The conception of the plot was formed by one Charles-Amedee-Louis-Joseph Rifoel, calling himself Chevalier du Vissard, born at the Vissard, district of Saint-Mexme, near Ernee, and a former leader of the rebels.
"A worthless hussy takes a noble name to soil it with such treachery," added Madame du Gua. A movement of astonishment ran through the assembly. "The fight is not even if the Republic employs such pretty women against us," said the Baron du Guenic gaily. "Especially women who have nothing to lose," said Madame du Gua. "Nothing?" cried the Chevalier du Vissard.
Madame du Gua, the Abbe Gudin, Major Brigaut, the Chevalier du Vissard, the Baron du Guenic, and the Comte de Bauvan raised the cry of "Vive le roi!" For a moment the other leaders hesitated; then, carried away by the noble action of the marquis, they begged him to forget what had passed, assuring him that, letters-patent or not, he must always be their leader.
He pictured to himself not "one Rifoel" but a Chevalier du Vissard, a young man something like the Fergus of Walter Scott, a French Jacobite. Had she rolled to the scaffold? The young man saw in his own mind a whole world, and he peopled it.
The young Chevalier de Vissard, better known under his patronymic of Rifoel, was silent before the general of the Catholic armies. "What is all this about, gentlemen?" asked the marquis, examining the faces round him.
By M. Bernard-Jean-Baptiste Macloud, Baron Bourlac. Formerly attorney-general to the Royal Court of Rouen. Grand officer of the Legion of honor. "Ha! the slayer of Madame's daughter! of the Chevalier du Vissard! the man who condemned her to twenty years' imprisonment!" said Godefroid, in a feeble voice. His legs gave way under him, and he dropped into a chair. "What a beginning!" he muttered.
The young and handsome Chevalier du Vissard, eager to be forgiven for the joke which had led to the insults at La Vivetiere, now came up to her and respectfully invited her to dance. She placed her hand in his, and they took their places in a quadrille opposite to Madame du Gua.
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