Escapes From Cayenne by Lon Chautard;Michal Roy;

Author:Lon Chautard;Michal Roy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

“ ‘In the beginning of the next year you will kill your mother, the French Republic, and you will be Emperor until the month of April, 1858.’

“You killed the Republic in December, 1851, and soon afterward you was proclaimed Emperor. You ought to be satisfied. You have been married and you have an heir—you ought to be delighted. But the year 1858 is near, very near us, and you will fall in the course of that year; not like Charles the Tenth, with dignity; nor like Louis Philippe, with the disdain of the people. You will fall poorly, like a vulgar wheedler, by the act of your soldiers, whom you have accustomed to have no faith, no honor, no honesty, to betray their oaths; they believe neither in God nor in Devil. You will gather the fruit of the seeds you have propagated in their hearts. Your soldiers, some morning, being tired of you and having nothing else to do, will put a rope around your neck, and the next tree will avenge your numerous victims.”

Our conversation was interrupted by Bivors, who said it was time to go to the colonial hospital.

Paon handed me a manuscript, in which his escape was related. It was written in French; I have translated it into English—that is all. I give that relation exactly as I received it.

Leon Chautard.

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