Note 53 — Chapter 3

I was in Nice at the time of the rising in Var and Draguignan. Two peasants who had been mixed up in the rebellion made their way to the river Var, which was the boundary. There they were overtaken by a gendarme. The latter shot at one and wounded him in the leg—he fell, while the other set off running. The gendarme tried to tie the wounded man to his horse, but afraid of letting the other get off he shot the first man in the head à bout portant; feeling certain that he had killed him, he galloped after the other. The terribly disfigured peasant survived.—(Author’s Note.)