sed his
hands and his eyes to heaven and said to Martin:

"Martin, these are things which must never be known save to you and to
me."

The visionary promised him absolute secrecy.

Such was the interview of April 2, according to the account given of
it by Martin, who then, under the influence of M. La Perruque's
sermons, was an infatuated Royalist. It would be interesting to know
more of this priest whose inspiration is obvious throughout the whole
story. Louis XVIII agreed with M. Decazes that the man was quite
harmless; and he was sent back to his plough.

Later, the agents of one of those false dauphins so numerous under the
Restoration, got hold of Martin and made use of him in their own
interest. After Louis XVIII's death, under the influence of these
adventurers, the poor man, reconstituting the story of his interview
with the late King, introduced into it other revelations he claimed to
have received and completely changed the whole character of the
incident. In this second version the passionate Royalist of 1816 was
transformed into an accusing prophet, who came to the King's own
palace to denounce him as a usurper and a regicide, forbidding him in
God's name to be crowned at Reims.

Such ramblings I cannot relate at length. They are to be found fully
detailed in the book of M. Paul Marin. The author of this work would
have done well to indicate that these follies were suggested to the
unhappy man by the partisans of Naundorf, who was passing himself off
as the Duke of Normandy, who had escaped from the Temple.

Thomas Ignace Martin died at Chartres in 1834. It is alleged, but it
has never been proved, that he was poisoned.[2767]

[Footnote 2767: _Rapport adresse a S. Ex. le Ministre de la Police
Generale sur l'etat du nomme Martin, envoye par son ordre a la maison
royale de Charenton, le 13 Mars, 1816, par MM. Pinel, medecin en chef
de l'hopital de la Salpetriere, et Royer-Collard, medecin en chef de
la maison royale de Charenton, et l'un et l'autre professeurs a la
faculte de medecine de Paris._ Inscribed at the end with the
date--Paris, 6 May, 1816--39 pages in 4'o MS. in the library of the
author. Le Capitaine Paul Marin, _Thomas Martin de Gallardon Les
Medecins et les thaumaturges du XIX'e siecle_, Paris, s.d. in
18'o. _Memoires de la Comtesse de Boignes_, edited by Charles
Nicoullaud, Paris, 1907, vol. iii. pp. 355 and _passim_.]

APPENDIX IV

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