CHAPTER XXXIV.
[1] Letter to Madame de Polignac, March 17th, Feuillet de Conches, v., p. 337.
[2] The Monks of St. Bernard were known as Feuillants, from Feuillans, a village in Languedoc where their principal convent was situated.
[3] Lamartine, "Histoire des Girondins," xiii., p.18.
[4] The messenger was M. Goguelat: he took the name of M. Daumartin, and adhered to the cause of his sovereigns to the last moment of their lives.
[5] Letter of the Count de Fersen, who was at Brussels, to Gustavus (who, however, was dead before it could reach him), dated March 24th, 1792. In many respects the information De Fersen sends to his king tallies precisely with that sent by Breteuil to the emperor; he only adds a few circumstances which had not reached the baron.
[6] Afterward Louis Philippe, King of the French, who was himself driven from the throne by insurrection above half a century afterward.
[7] Madame de Campan, ch. xx.
[8] Ibid., ch. XIX.
[9] "Vie de Dumouriez," ii, p. 163, quoted by Marquis de Ferrières, Feuillet de Conches, and several other writers.
[10] Even Lamartine condemns the letter, the greater part of which he inserts in his history as one in which "the threat is no less evident than the treachery."—Histoire des Girondins, xiii., p. 16.