My parents passed only twenty-four hours in La Force. They were transferred to the Luxembourg, which they left only to pass into eternity.
Every day I heard sad news through prisoners who read the public papers, and who desired to communicate it to me. I refused to listen, thinking that to do so was only to incur additional pain. One day, when I was wondering what my parents were undergoing, I saw enter the cloister Monsieur d'Aryon, a captain of the National Guard (a very honest man, to whom I was afterward under many obligations), who seemed anxious not to meet me, so entirely was he dismayed by his mission. He sent a prisoner to deliver to me my order of imprisonment, of which the following is a copy:—
Beauvais, this 19th of October,
28th day of the 2d month of
the year II. of the Republic.
You are informed that you are to start for Chantilly on the night of this day, Saturday to Sunday. You would do well to make all your preparations to take with you everything absolutely necessary to you.
If you have occasion to procure a carriage, let me know.
(Signed)
E. Portier. Michel,
Taquet, Dufour,