. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the collection of Mr. Edmond Taigny MARIE-JOSEPHINE-ROSE TASCHER DE LA PAGERIE,CALLED JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH From the design by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (pencil drawing retouched inwater-color) made in 1798. ^T. 26] ANTECHAMBER TO SUCCESS 277 a little while equally marked. Before the close of 1794the Breton peasants who, under the name of Chouans,had become lawless highwaymen were entirely crushed;and the English expedition sent to Quiberon in the fol-lowing year to revive the disorders was a complete,almost ridiculous failure. The insurrection of Vendeeh
. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the collection of Mr. Edmond Taigny MARIE-JOSEPHINE-ROSE TASCHER DE LA PAGERIE,CALLED JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH From the design by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (pencil drawing retouched inwater-color) made in 1798. ^T. 26] ANTECHAMBER TO SUCCESS 277 a little while equally marked. Before the close of 1794the Breton peasants who, under the name of Chouans,had become lawless highwaymen were entirely crushed;and the English expedition sent to Quiberon in the fol-lowing year to revive the disorders was a complete,almost ridiculous failure. The insurrection of Vendeehad dragged stubbornly on, but it was stamped out inJune, 1795, by the execution of over seven hundred ofthe emigrants who had returned on English vessels tofan the royalist blaze which was kindling again. The royaHsts, having created the panic of five yearsprevious, were not to be outdone even by the , the Vendean leader, retaliated by a holocaustof two thousand republican prisoners whom he hadtaken. After the
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