The man in grey / Being episodes of the Chovan [i.e. Chouan] conspiracies in Normandy during the First Empire.

Being Episodes of the Chovan Conspiracies in Normandy During the First Empire.
By BARONESS ORCZY
AUTHOR OF Lord Tony's Wife, Leatherface The Bronze Eagle, etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1918, By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
THE MAN IN GREY
It has been a difficult task to piece together the fragmentary documents which alone throw a light—dim and flickering at the best—upon that mysterious personality known to the historians of the Napoleonic era as the Man in Grey. So very little is known about him. Age, appearance, domestic circumstances, everything pertaining to him has remained a matter of conjecture—even his name! In the reports sent by the all-powerful Minister to the Emperor he is invariably spoken of as The Man in Grey. Once only does Fouché refer to him as Fernand.
Strange and mysterious creature! Nevertheless, he played an important part— the most important, perhaps—in bringing to justice some of those reckless criminals who, under the cloak of Royalist convictions and religious and political aims, spent their time in pillage, murder and arson.