Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... proclamation issued by the Empress-Regent was affixed to the walls of the town. This document was dated the gth of April, and signed by Marie Louise and by Montalivet, Minister of the Interior, and acting secretary of state to the Regent. This obsolete proclamation consisted of fifteen or twenty lines, the purport of which was as follows: "All recognised military or civil authorities are forbidden to obey any order not emanating from the Emperor or the Regent. "It is positively and officially announced that the Emperor's army has hurried to the aid of the capital, and will immediately deliver the city of Paris without fail from the horde of barbarians who threaten it." The prefects of Orleans and of Chateauroux had intercepted the postmen, and the carriers of the newspapers and the provisional government's proclamations, ever since March 29th. April, 1814. Never did I find any place so dull and uninteresting as Limoges. The inhabitants of this town, like all those of the central provinces, are less intelligent and civilised than the people who live on the frontiers, in the important maritime towns, or in the capital; they understand nothing but trade and the money which it produces. In politics they are royalists from confirmed habit, and not from conviction. They hated Bonaparte on account of their hatred of customs duties, trade licenses, excessive taxation, everlasting wars, and the conscrip tion with all its abuses. Everywhere the same reasons existed for hating this Emperor and his despotic government. I left Limoges as soon as a favourable opportunity presented itself. A friend of mine, whom I greatly esteem for his courageous probity and sincere expression of opinion (M. Lamarque, a judge of the High Court of Appeal), was passing...
