. The court of Empress Josephine : with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison. OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE I93 assassin; but how is it possible to escape from the blowof a concealed weapon ? We must be silent and submitto be butchered. He had no sooner spoken these words, of which Icannot but disapprove, when the old President of theCommittee of General Safety left the room; and Nevil,who was in the corridor, remarked, as he fancied, inhis naturally forbidding countenance, an equivocalexpression which foreboded nothing favourable to ourcause. I shall keep you daily informed of the cons


. The court of Empress Josephine : with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison. OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE I93 assassin; but how is it possible to escape from the blowof a concealed weapon ? We must be silent and submitto be butchered. He had no sooner spoken these words, of which Icannot but disapprove, when the old President of theCommittee of General Safety left the room; and Nevil,who was in the corridor, remarked, as he fancied, inhis naturally forbidding countenance, an equivocalexpression which foreboded nothing favourable to ourcause. I shall keep you daily informed of the consequencesof this occurrence, which has left me a prey to the mostpoignant anguish. vol. 11 13 LETTER V TO THE SAME PRETENDED CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED IN THE PRISON OF THE LUXEMBOURG CITIZEN LAFLOTTE MADAME FANNY DE BEAUHARNAIS TAKES THE CHILDREN OF HER NIECEUNDER HER OWN CARE An article in this mornings paper has filled mewith terror; as it will reach you to-morrow, I hasten tosend you the antidote to it. You will read in that paper1 that a great conspiracy has been discovered in thehouse


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