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Franois-Sverin Marceau, 1769-1796

Franois-Sverin Marceau, 1769-1796

Johnson, Thomas George

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150772085
ISBN13: 9781150772085
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... this period; it is an epitome of the cruel war of La Vendee. It was on his departure on horseback from Le Mans on the afternoon of the I3th December, that Marceau met Angelique in the Place des Halles, whither she had been pursued by a party of soldiers, whose intentions we can gather from what had already been enacted in Le Mans since the defeat of the Vendeans. Marceau rescued her from the soldiers and sent her in charge of two grenadiers to the chief of his staff, Adjutant-General Savary, who had not yet left the temporary headquarters of the army. Savary questioned the prisoner and learnt her name, and that she.was from Montfaugon, in the bocage of La Vendee. She further explained that she had been separated from her parents and brother in the confusion of the battle, and feared they had all perished. She did not wish, she said, to survive them, and begged that she might at once be led out and shot. Savary reasoned with the young girl, and succeeded in calming and reassuring her. As he was himself about to leave the town, he placed the fugitive in Marceau's cabriolet, the only vehicle ready at hand at the time. In this she was conveyed, suitably escorted, to Varges, and the next day to Laval. At Laval, Savary found her a safe hiding-place, first with a woman who faithfully attended to all her wants, and next with an old cure, who lived in a secluded locality outside the town. To each, then, is due the praise for this generous act of pity. To Marceau, for having first saved the life and protected the honour of Angelique at a most critical moment; to Savary, for having taken all measures necessary for her further safety. That Angelique herself looked upon Marceau as the principal instrument of her salvation is proved by the fact that to him...

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