[372] Madame Moreau, née Hulot, was a Creole and a friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais. After the death of Moreau, Alexander I. gave her a donation of 500,000 roubles and a pension of 30,000 roubles per annum.—T.
[373] Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), author of the Physiologie du goût, had been appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal by the Consulate in 1800.—B.
[374] Pichegru committed suicide, or was assassinated, in prison, on the 5th of April 1804.—T.
[375] The execution of Georges Cadoudal and his eleven companions took place on the 25th of July 1804, at eleven o'clock in the morning, on the Place de Grève. The evening before, the gaol-keeper at Bicêtre had entered Cadoudal's cell and brought him a petition for mercy ready for signature. Georges cast a glance at the paper, and saw that it was addressed "To His Majesty the Emperor." He refused to see any more. Turning to his companions:
"Comrades," he said, "let us say our prayers."
On the morning of the execution, Captain Laborde said to someone who asked him for news of the criminal:
"He has slept more peacefully than I."
On arriving at the Place de Grève, the Abbé de Keravenant made him say the Angelic Salutation: "Hail Mary, full of grace... Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now..."
Here Georges stopped.
"Continue," said the priest,"... and at the hour of our death."