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Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian (2); The Irish Abroad and at Home; in the Camp; at the Court. With Souvenirs of "the Brigade."
Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian The Irish Abroad and at Home in the Camp at the Court With Souvenirs of the Brigade - 2 Author:Andrew] [O'Reilly Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: R. Bentley Subjects: Irish History / General History / Europe / France History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typo... more »s or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. Madame Desmoulins -- Madame Labedoyere -- Visit to Pere la Chaise -- La Mare'chale Mouchy. On the same scaffold with Dillon, and nearly at the same moment, perished, as we have seen, the young, the beautiful Anne Philippe Louise Duplessis Lacidon, widow of the unfortunate Camille Desmoulins. Her wedded life had been as happy as was possible, considering the state of excitement and agitation in which her husband's connexion with the stormy events of the Revolution must have kept her. Their attachment to each other amounted to the romantic. " Determined that death should not long separate them," it was said she took that whichher biographer terms, " the generous resolution to follow him." One-and-twenty years afterwards, another young, beautiful and interesting woman, similarly bereaved, gave public utterance to a resolution of precisely the same tendency. " Verba volant, scripta manent." This was the widow of the young, the handsome, the gallant, the brave, the noble, the faithful and th devoted adherent of Napoleon, Charles Angelique Francois Huchet, Count de Labedoyere. She erected to his memory in Pere la Chaise, a handsome monument (headstone it would be called in Ireland), on which is pourtrayed, for it still exists, in bas-relief, a veiled female weeping over a child, who extends his hands towards her in supplication or sympathy, and which bears this epigraph : " MON AMOTJR POUR MON FILS A PU SEUL MB RETBNIR A LA VIE." ...« less