. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. ge yourselves under the standard of your chief; his existence de-pends upon you; his interests, his honor, and his glory are will march at double-quick time. The eagle with the nationalcolors will fly from steeple to steeple to the towers of Notre you will be able to show your scars with honor; then you will to boast of what you have done; you will be the liberators of thecountry. At Grenoble there was a show of resistance. Napoleonwent directly to the soldiers, followed by his guard. Here I am; you know me. If there is a solcher
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. ge yourselves under the standard of your chief; his existence de-pends upon you; his interests, his honor, and his glory are will march at double-quick time. The eagle with the nationalcolors will fly from steeple to steeple to the towers of Notre you will be able to show your scars with honor; then you will to boast of what you have done; you will be the liberators of thecountry. At Grenoble there was a show of resistance. Napoleonwent directly to the soldiers, followed by his guard. Here I am; you know me. If there is a solcher amongyou who wishes to kill his emperor, let him do it. Long live the emperor! was the answer; and in atwinkle six thousand men had torn off their white cockadesand replaced them by old soiled tricolors. They drew themfrom the inside of their caps, where they had been con-cealing them since the exile of their hero. It is the samethat I wore at Austerlitz, said one as be passed the em-peror. This, said another, I had at 268 RULER OF THE ISLAND OF eLBA 269 From Grenoble the emperor marched to Lyons, wherethe soldiers and officers went over to him in royalist leaders who had deigned to go to Lyons toexhort the army found themselves ignored; and Ney, whohad been ordered from Besangon to stop the emperors ad-vance, and who started out promising to bring back Na-poleon in an iron cage, surrendered his entire was impossible to resist the force of popular opinion, hesaid. From Lyons the emperor, at the head of what wasnow the French army, passed by Dijon, Autun, Avallon, andAuxerre, to Fontainebleau, which he reached on March19th. The same day Louis XVIIL fled from Paris. The change of sentiment in these few days was wellillustrated in a French paper which, after Napoleons re-turn, published the following calendar gathered from theroyalist press. February 25.— The exterminator has signed a treatyoffensive and defensive. It is not known with whom.
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