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Title: The history of Hortense, daughter of Josephine, Queen of Holland, mother of Napoleon III
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e lane which leads there through theFaubourg of Pierre. This barrack is a largebuilding, erected in a place with no outlet butthe entrance. The ground in front is too nar-now for a regiment to be drawn up in line ofbattle. In seeing myself thus hedged in be-tween the ramparts and the barracks, I per-ceived that the plan agreed upon had not beenfollowed out. Upon our arrival, the soldiersthronged around us. I harangued them.Most of them went to get their arms, and re-turned to rally around me, testifying their sym-pathy for me by their acclamations. *^ However, seeing them manifest a suddenhesitation, caused by the reports circulated bysome oflGlcers among them who endeavored toinspire them with doubts of my identity, andas we were also losing precious time in an un-favorable position, instead of hastening to theother regiments who expected us, I requestedthe colonel to depart. He urged me to remaina little longer. I complied with his advice. Some infantry officers arrived, ordered the
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THE ARREST. 1836.J Letter to Hortense. 337 Peril of the prince. gates to be closed, and strongly reprimandedtheir soldiers. The soldiers hesitated. I or-dered the arrest of the officers. Their soldiersrescued them. Then all was confusion. Thespace was so contracted that each one was lostin the crowd. The people, who had climbedupon the wall, threw stones at the infantry.The cannoneers wished to use their arms, butwe prevented it. We saw clearly that it wouldcause the death of very many. I saw the colo-nel by turns arrested by the infantry, and res-cued by his soldiers. I was myself upon thepoint of being slain by a multitude of menwho, recognizing me, crossed their bayonetsupon me. I parried their thrusts with mysabre, trying at the same time to calm them,when the cannoneers rescued me from theirguns, and placed me in the middle of them-selves. ^^ I then pressed forward, with some subal-tern officers, towards the mounted artillery-men, to seize a horse. All the infantry fol-lowed me.

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