Note 341 — Chapter LXXIII
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The presence of the allies in the ancient capital of Champagne, had reanimated the hopes of the partisans of the Bourbons. The Emperor of Russia could not help observing to them, "that he considered the step they had taken a little premature; that the chances of war were uncertain, and that he should be sorry to see them sacrificed."—Beauchamp, Hist. de la Champagne de 1814, tom. i., p. 241.