FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   205   206   207   208   209   210   211   212   213   214   215   216   217   218   219   220   221   222   223   224   225   226   227   228   229  
230   231   232   233   234   235   236   237   238   239   240   241   242   243   244   245   246   247   248   249   250   251   252   253   254   >>   >|  
d elevated Duke of Rovigo by Napoleon. SR.)] [Footnote 3143: Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la revolution francaise" and "Dix ans d'exil." Exile of Madame de Balbi, of Madame de Chevreuse, of Madame de Duras, of Madame d'Aveaux, of Madame de Stael, of Madame de Recamier, etc.--Duc de Rovigo, Ibid., IV., 389: "The first exiles dated from 1805; I think there were fourteen."] [Footnote 3144: Roederer, III., 472. (Report on the Senatorerie of Caen, 1803.) The nobles "have no social relations either with citizens or with the public functionaries, except with the prefect of Caen and the general in command.... Their association with the prefect intimates their belief that they might need him. All pay their respects to the general of division; his mantelpiece is strewed with visiting-cards."] [Footnote 3145: Madame de la Rochejaquelein, "Memoires," 423: "We lived exposed to a tyranny which left us neither calm nor contentment. At one time a spy was placed amongst our servants, at another some of our relations would be exiled far from their homes, accused of exercising a charity which secured them too much affection from their neighbors. Sometimes, my husband would be obliged to go to Paris to explain his conduct. Again, a hunting-party would be represented as a meeting of Vendeans. Occasionally, we were blamed for going into Poitou because our influence was regarded as too dangerous; again, we were reproached for not living there and not exercising our influence in behalf of the conscription."--Her brother-in-law, Auguste de la Rochejaquelein, invited to take service in the army comes to Paris to present his objections. He is arrested, and at the end of two months "the minister signifies to him that he must remain a prisoner so long as he refuses to be a second-lieutenant."] [Footnote 3146: Senatus-consulte of April 26, 1802: "Considering that this measure is merely one of pardon to the large number who are always more led astray than criminal... the amnestied will remain for ten years under a special government surveillance." It may oblige each one "to leave his usual residence and go to a distance of twenty leagues, and even farther if circumstances demand it."] [Footnote 3147: Thiers, X., 41. (Letter to Fouche, Dec.31, 1808, not inserted in the correspondence.)--"The Modern Regime," book I., ch.II.] [Footnote 3148: Rocquain, "Etat de la France au 18 brumaire," pp.33, 189, 190. (Reports of Francais de Nantes
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   205   206   207   208   209   210   211   212   213   214   215   216   217   218   219   220   221   222   223   224   225   226   227   228   229  
230   231   232   233   234   235   236   237   238   239   240   241   242   243   244   245   246   247   248   249   250   251   252   253   254   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Madame

 

Footnote

 

Rovigo

 

prefect

 

exercising

 

general

 
Rochejaquelein
 
remain
 

relations

 

influence


refuses

 

reproached

 

prisoner

 

lieutenant

 

Senatus

 

Considering

 

regarded

 

consulte

 

dangerous

 
Francais

present

 

brother

 

objections

 

service

 

Auguste

 

invited

 

arrested

 

Reports

 
signifies
 

behalf


living

 

conscription

 

minister

 

measure

 

months

 
Nantes
 

circumstances

 

demand

 

Rocquain

 

farther


residence

 
distance
 

twenty

 

leagues

 

Thiers

 

inserted

 
correspondence
 

Modern

 

Regime

 
Letter