Recollections of Colonel De Gonneville
Recollections of Colonel De Gonneville
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This digression is foreign to my military history ; but I shall at times have to mention persons whose memory remains dear to me.
When we had spent a fortnight in Normandy, we joined our division at Rufifec, between Poitiers and Bordeaux, the same day that the Emperor went by there on his way from Erfurth. We waited for him at the post-house, and while changing horses he questioned General d'Avenay respecting the amount of fatigue of men and horses who had just made a march of four hundred leag...ues. He appeared satisfied with the account given. While we were there an infantry colonel, in a uniform of a former period, drew near the carriage door, for the Emperor had not dis- mounted, and in an agitated voice begged to be Digitized by Google COLONEL DE GONNEVILLE. 171 allowed the honour of going to Spain to share the honours and dangers of the army. The Em- peror answered : ** And if I give you Employment, will you be wrong-headed again?" The poor colonel lost his head in a moment, being quite embarrassed by this question, and he stammered out: "Sire, I will do everything that is in my power to serve as agreeably as possible." ** If that is the case," said the Emperor, with a smile, " come to me at Bayonne." He went there, was appointed to a regiment, and three years afterwards was General of Divi- sion.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This digression is foreign to my military history ; but I shall at times have to mention persons whose memory remains dear to me.
When we had spent a fortnight in Normandy, we joined our division at Rufifec, between Poitiers and Bordeaux, the same day that the Emperor went by there on his way from Erfurth. We waited for him at the post-house, and while changing horses he questioned General d'Avenay respecting the amount of fatigue of men and horses who had just made a march of four hundred leag...ues. He appeared satisfied with the account given. While we were there an infantry colonel, in a uniform of a former period, drew near the carriage door, for the Emperor had not dis- mounted, and in an agitated voice begged to be Digitized by Google COLONEL DE GONNEVILLE. 171 allowed the honour of going to Spain to share the honours and dangers of the army. The Em- peror answered : ** And if I give you Employment, will you be wrong-headed again?" The poor colonel lost his head in a moment, being quite embarrassed by this question, and he stammered out: "Sire, I will do everything that is in my power to serve as agreeably as possible." ** If that is the case," said the Emperor, with a smile, " come to me at Bayonne." He went there, was appointed to a regiment, and three years afterwards was General of Divi- sion.
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