The Last Days of the Consulate, from the Fr., Ed., with an Intr. by M.L. Lalanne - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... Real's curiosity, or probably his vanity, led him to endeavour to extract a confession from a man who had humiliated power and strength in the person of Dubois, as courage and nobility of mind when arrayed against them can humiliate. The chief was not more fortunate than the subordinate. Saint-Victor came out of his hands with his secret, if he had one, safe, and having given additional proofs of his nobleminded pride, the sincerity of his political opinions, and the impossibility of his lending himself to an assassination plot. This unfortunate young man, who belonged to a highly respectable family in the Department of the Vosges, and was endowed with all the advantages of nature and education, had hastened to the West immediately on the breaking out of the civil war. There he had distinguished himself by his courage, the zeal with which he had served the royal cause, and his deep regret for the cruelties of that war, and the mere brigandage into which it degenerated. From that time forth until the day of his arrest, his life had been a succession of misfortunes and persecution. I shall have occasion to speak of him again. He was one of those who created the greatest interest, and whose guilt was the least clearly proven among the conspirators, and he suffered the extreme penalty.1 1 Marg. note. "If he had perished, either naturally or by the hands of the police, only the day before, his memory would have been held merely that of a brigand. Condemned, however, to appear before a tribunal and to be assassinated with the formalities of justice, he died honoured, reputed innocent, and he will be remembered with regret, if our sorrow for the more illustrious names and memories leave us leisure to mourn the less." If all the accused had imitated almost all th...