Memoirs of the Marchioness de Larochejaquelein (Volume 3); With a Map of the Theatre of War in La Vendee. Translated from the French (Paperback)

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.1816 Excerpt: ... ened their march; going out of the town, I saw M. de Larochejaquelein; he told me it was only a false alarm, that he had been reassuring the soldiers, and stopping their flight, and that he was returning to breakfast quietly at Laval. He begged me not to be uneasy, and assured me we should get to Craon without interruption. This was the last time 1 ever saw him. At Craon we read the newspapers; they informed us that my poor aunt and seven hundred fugitives had been found in the environs of Angers, tried, and shot. This shocking news threw my mother into despair; we loved my unhappy aunt tenderly. She Was, though eighty years old, most amiable, and her piety of the gentlest kind. From Craon, the army went to St Marc, on their way to Ancenis. We marched day and night in order to be enough in advance of the republican army to pass the Loire without interruption. The roads were bad, and the weather cold and rainy; it was scarcely possible to drag on the sick and wounded. I saw a priest carrying one on his shoulders, and sinking under the weight. My child was dying from illness, and still more from fatigue: I lay down with her in the waggon which carried the military chest; we had no longer any carriage; I travelled thus for some leagues. We arrived at Ancenis the morning of the 16th of December. M. de Larochejaquelein had entered the first without resistance, and was already preparing for the passage of the Loire. He had taken a small boat from a pond at the Chateau de St Marc, and had placed it in a waggon. He foresaw we should have no means of passing, because the republicans would take away the boats on our arrival; the opposite shore was in their power, and they had troops at St Florent; however, M. de Larochejaquelein was assured that a small body of insurg..