Montreux . fter condemnation, dispatched to Aarburg,whence they presently managed to make their escape,and await happier times in a foreign country. Those happier times came when a French armycrossed the lake and fomented rcA olution in Castle of Chillon yielded to them peaceably,without even the pretence of a resistance. Someyoung men from Vevey obtained permission tovisit it, and, entering as sightseers, remained asconquerors, the garrison being, no doubt, smalland favourably disposed to them. By a triumphantirony, Mliller de la Mothe, so recently a prisoner,was now installed as com
Montreux . fter condemnation, dispatched to Aarburg,whence they presently managed to make their escape,and await happier times in a foreign country. Those happier times came when a French armycrossed the lake and fomented rcA olution in Castle of Chillon yielded to them peaceably,without even the pretence of a resistance. Someyoung men from Vevey obtained permission tovisit it, and, entering as sightseers, remained asconquerors, the garrison being, no doubt, smalland favourably disposed to them. By a triumphantirony, Mliller de la Mothe, so recently a prisoner,was now installed as commandant, and otherprisoners were speedily provided for him to lookafter. They were prisoners of war, captured duringthe operations in the ^^alais, and their conditionwas truly miserable. Carried off just as they werefound on the battlefield or the farm, most of themhad no change of clothes or even of linen. Theirragged garments became more ragged, their filth THE SAVOY ALPS FROM THE BATHING-PLACE AT CLARENS. 1
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