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Title: Cape Vincent and its history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Casler, Nelie Horton
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Publisher: Watertown, N.Y. : Hungerford-Holbrook Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e building of the Cup and Saucer House whichhe subsequently occupied, and which was to have been Napo-leons refuge in this country. Count Real boarded in the fam-ily of John B. Esselstyn. He returned to France in 1818, buton March 8, 1822, we find him again in Cape Vincent, as hisname appears among a list of charter members of the firstMasonic Lodge chartered on that date. The Cup and Saucer House, so-called from its pecuharstyle of architecture, resembled an inverted cup placed in asaucer. It stood on the ground now occupied by the powerhouse of the water works, and was burned in 1867. It caughtfire from one of the fire places in the parlor. Count Real and his friends were well supplied with scien-tific instruments for making experiments in chemistry andnatural philosophy. Desclozeaux says, M. Real as a chem-ist and machinst consecrated the greatest part of his largefortune acquired under the Empire in experiments of allkinds. He was the inventor of a very fine philter for atmos- 208
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Cape Vincent and its History pheric pressure. In dying he left unfinished a machine forvapor, after a new system upon which later scientists havegiven a favorable opinion. He was also a great lover ofantiquities. They also brought with them articles which hadbelonged to Napoleon. These included valuable pictures, oneof which was a portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau, paintedby the great French painter Boucher. They brought ele-gant furniture and in fact, everything required for the fur-nishing of a house worthy of their beloved Emperor. Oneroom in the house was always known as Napoleons Room.The death of Napoleon cut short the plans for his rescue. About 1826, Madame le Baronne Eulalie Fran9oise Lacueeaccompanied Hyacinth Peugnet and his bride to America.She was the only daughter of Count Real and the widow ofGeneral Jean Chrysostome Douzon de Lacuee. She residedhere for a while and was an intimate friend of Mme. Sacket. Joseph Bonaparte, who first came to Northern New Yorkafter Napoleo

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