The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860 . my had sustained in thedeath of General Ornano. He was only twenty-sixyears of age, and the youngest officer of his rank inthe army. The Emperor, who was very fond of the General,was deeply grieved, and. exclaimed, Poor fellow! he was one of my best cavalryofficers! and, turning to one of his orderlies, de-sired him to go immediately and find out all aboutthe wound Avhich had caused his death. The officer,in order to satisfy himself on this point, had thesupposed corpse tak
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860 . my had sustained in thedeath of General Ornano. He was only twenty-sixyears of age, and the youngest officer of his rank inthe army. The Emperor, who was very fond of the General,was deeply grieved, and. exclaimed, Poor fellow! he was one of my best cavalryofficers! and, turning to one of his orderlies, de-sired him to go immediately and find out all aboutthe wound Avhich had caused his death. The officer,in order to satisfy himself on this point, had thesupposed corpse taken out of the snow, and, onlooking at the wound, observed that the body wasstill warm, and the General consequently could notbe dead. Furs and flannels were, at the officerssuggestion, heaped upon the corpse, which was thenplaced upon a stretcher, and taken to head-quarters ;after much care and perseverance, he was restoredto life, to the great joy of the Emperor and thewhole army. General Ornano is now a marshal ofFrance, and governor of the Invalides, and relatedthe above anecdote to one of my friends last 11 % II ra il t COUNT DUKSAlr. 277 Count DOrsay.—In speaking of this gifted andaccomplished man, I shall strictly confine myself, asI have done in other instances, to his public char-acter, and not enter into the details of his privatelife; which are, perhaps, better left in the shade. Ifirst saw him at an evening party given in 1816,by his grandmother, the well-known MadameCrawford, in the Rue dAnjou Saint Honore. Hewas then sixteen years old, and he appeared to be ageneral favourite, owing to his remarkable beautyand pleasing manners. His father and mother wereboth present, and did me the honour to inviteme to their house in the Rue Mont Blanc, nowcalled the Rue de la Chaussee dAntin. They occu-pied the apartment in which the celebrated com-poser Rossini now lives. DOrsays father, justlysurnamed Le Beau dOrsay, was one of the hand-somest men in the French army
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