. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . man left the path probablyto see the sport. His approach disturbed threegaunt dogs, savagely fighting over two human bodies,already horribly torn, which lay half hidden among 281 LOUVET the rye. Proud of his discovery, the peasant at oncecommunicated with the municipal authorities. Thedead men were soon identified as Buzot and Petion ;but the bodies were in such a shocking conditionthat the sanitary officer refused to examine were immediately dug and the corpses un-ceremoniously pitchforked into them. A perfunctoryreport on the matter was
. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . man left the path probablyto see the sport. His approach disturbed threegaunt dogs, savagely fighting over two human bodies,already horribly torn, which lay half hidden among 281 LOUVET the rye. Proud of his discovery, the peasant at oncecommunicated with the municipal authorities. Thedead men were soon identified as Buzot and Petion ;but the bodies were in such a shocking conditionthat the sanitary officer refused to examine were immediately dug and the corpses un-ceremoniously pitchforked into them. A perfunctoryreport on the matter was dispatched to the Conven-tion, and the incident was considered closed.* To this day, the field in which the unhappy Deputieswere found is known as the Champs des , they had emigrated ; but it was to another andbetter world ; or, at all events, it could not very wellhave been a worse. * Guadet, Les Girondins, vol. ii. Lenotre, Vieilles maisons, vieux papiers, ser. , Charlotte de Cor day et les Girondins, vol. iii. 282. From an engraving by Baudran, after the portrait carried by Madame Roland. BUZOT. [To face page 28i CHAPTER XXIV Louvet reaches Montpont—Negotiating a sentry—A criticalmoment—Qui vive !—Fabricating a passport—Crippled withrheumatism—A sympathetic landlady—An embarrassing compli-ment—He steals through Mussidan—Almost collapses on theroad—He falls among enemies—A churlish innkeeper and hiswife—Louvet plays the sans-culotte—He prepares for the worst—Hoodwinking the Mayor—The Procureur-Syndic—Louvetcalls for more wine—The passport—A desperate game—Thelandlady loses her blood money—Louvet breathes freely again—Another hostile innkeeper—Louvet is befriended by a carrier—A restless night and a hopeless dawn—He overtakes thecarrier—He accepts a seat in the cart—An explanation—Asudden peril, and how he met it—Louvets passport —Thecarrier uses his whip. LOUVET parted from his friends about four m
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