Part 3 — CHAPTER V (continued 2)
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The English are very much out of favour with the emigrants, as well on account of the stripping of the Louvre as on account of not having shot all the libéraux. They had the folly to believe that the Allied troops would merely make war for the emigrants' interests, and after having put to death a considerable quantity of those who should be designated as rebels and Jacobins by them (the emigrants), would replace France in the exact position she was in 1789, and then depart.
Poor Marshall Ney's fate is decided. He was sentenced to death, and the sentence was carried into execution not on the Place de Grenelle as was given out, but in the gardens of Luxemburgh at a very early hour. He met his fate with great firmness and composure. I leave Paris to-morrow for London.
[47] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, VI, 20, 7.
[48] Virgil, Aen., VI, 620 (temnere divos).—ED.
[49] Louis Wirion (1764-1810), an officer of gendarmerie, commander-general of the place de Verdun since 1804, was accused in 1808 of having extorted money from certain English prisoners quartered in Verdun (Estwick, Morshead, Garland, etc.). Wirion shot himself before the end of the long proceedings, which do not seem to have established his guilt, but had reduced him to misery and despair.—ED.
[50] Richard Brinsley Sheridan's (1751-1816) Pizarro, produced at Drury Lane in 1799.—ED.
[51] Three brothers Zadera, all born in Warsaw, served in the Imperial army.—ED.
[52] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso III, 2, i.—ED.
[53] These words mean, or are supposed to mean, in French and in Dutch: "I don't understand" (je n'entends pas).—ED.
[54] Horace, Carm., IV, 2,39.—ED.
[55]John Chetwode Eustace (1762-1815), author of A Tour through Italy (2 vol., London, 1813), the eighth edition of which appeared in 1841.—ED.
[56] Theodoric was a Goth, not a Lombard.—ED.
[57] Of course, Silva Beleni.—ED.
[58] Perhaps Clement François Philippe de Laâge Bellefaye, mentioned in the Souvenirs of Baron de Frénilly, p. 94. His large estates had been confiscated in the Revolution.—ED.