Note 620 — SECTION XXVII: CHAPTER IV
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Schepeler (p. 460) mentions that during his short halt on the frontier of Murcia, Soult court-martialled and shot a French émigré officer in the Spanish service captured on the 9th—Charles Cléry, the son of the faithful servant of Louis XVI, who was so long with his master in the Temple prison. As he had been out of France for many years, first in the Austrian and then in the Spanish army, this was a cruel stretch of the idea of treason.