François-Séverin Marceau, 1769-1796 . rmistice denounced—Marceau incommand of the right wing—His several tasks duringthe advance of the French armies—His attitudetowards the people—Retreat of Jourdan and junctionof the right wing with the main army on the Lahn . 277 Chapter VII. The defence of the Lower Lahn—Limburg—Castel-verds untimely retreat—Marceau gives time toJourdans army—In the forest of Hochstenbach—The end—Portrait of Marceau—Obsequies—Sub-sequent cremation at Coblentz 305 APPENDIX. I. List of services of General Marceau . . 331 ::] Letters of Marceau, as Commander-in-Chief toitj th
François-Séverin Marceau, 1769-1796 . rmistice denounced—Marceau incommand of the right wing—His several tasks duringthe advance of the French armies—His attitudetowards the people—Retreat of Jourdan and junctionof the right wing with the main army on the Lahn . 277 Chapter VII. The defence of the Lower Lahn—Limburg—Castel-verds untimely retreat—Marceau gives time toJourdans army—In the forest of Hochstenbach—The end—Portrait of Marceau—Obsequies—Sub-sequent cremation at Coblentz 305 APPENDIX. I. List of services of General Marceau . . 331 ::] Letters of Marceau, as Commander-in-Chief toitj the Minister of War 333 ILLUSTRATIONS, etc. PAGE Portrait of Marceau (after the painting by Sergent) Frontispiece The District of the Invasion of 1792 . 2 La Vendee in 1793 129 The Rhine, the Nahe and the Lahn . . 304 Part EURE-AND-LOIR. The Revolution by the side of yoidhful figures of giants^such as Danion, Sai7tt-fust, and Robespierre, has young idealfigures, like Hoche and Marceau.—VICTOR BIOGRAPHY OF MARCEAU. CHAPTER I. Chart res—The family of Desgraviers—Birth and educationof Marceau—Enlistment. IN the year 1790, in order to deal a final blow atwhat remained of the old feudal privileges andjurisdictions, the thirty-two ancient provinces ofFrance were split up into eighty-three so-calleddepartments. Thus out of the province of La Beaiccewas carved the greater portion of the departmentof the Eure-and-Loir, which lies midway betweenParis and Rouen on the one side, and the middlecourses of the Loire, where it flows past Orleansand Blois, on the other. At about this same period—1787 to 1790— thatwise and honest traveller, Arthur Young, was onhis travels through France. He traversed Le PaysBeauce, and found it to contain, as he has recorded,the cream of French husbandry. But this purely agricultural country, one of thegreat granaries of France, is little likely to attractthe modern traveller. It is an immense and mono-tonous undu
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