Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-11-25

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freshened by that, they worked fol-
I several hours at the breach till il
grew large enough. The wall was
four and a half feet thick. In Tude
instantly made D'Alegre get through,
while he fetched the portmanteau.
!, They left their ladders and etc, glad
ly behind, stepped down in to the dry
moat and were free.
Yet even here dangers still await
Z ed them. Sixty steps from the moat,
on the road 10 Bercey, the two men,
carrying the portmanteau between
them, fell in the darkness into an
aqueduct six feet deep and five feet
wide. D'Alegre, frightened, in his
first alarm dropped the portmanteau
and clung to La Tude, who, jerking
him of, clung to the other side, and
dragged out his friend by the hair of
the head. Afterward they scrambled
out the portmanteau, which luckily
foated. The horrors OF that dread
fnl night had ended. The two friends
embraced each other, and fell on their
knees 10 thank God for their deliver
ance from 80 many perils. All had
| gone well. The clothes had escaped
the wet, and, cold and shivering, the
two men helped each other to dress.
| AS they emerged from the moat it
struck four o'clock. They took the
first backney-coach they met; and
| la Tudc, not finding his friend NJ.
Silhouette, Chancellor of the Duke
Of Orleans, at Versailles, they both
Aed for refuge to the Abbey OF st.
German des Prez. After hiding
month he and D'Alegre, disguised
as peasants, made separately for the
frontier. D'Alegre was arrested at
Brussels La Tude, in June, at Am.
sterdam.* ....
ReConsigned to the Bastile, La Tude
WAS thrown into a dungeon, chained
hand and foot, and had only straw for
bed. Still ingenious, hopeful, and
persevering, the poor prisoner made
a fageolet out Of reed, and tanned
the rats which freQuented his cell.
He also wrote on casks o. dry bread,
with his blood, scheme Of reform that
might be useful to the government
and excite their pity. Pere Gritfet,
the oonfessor Of the Bastile, at last
touched by his sufIerings, procured
him paper and ink to write petitions
In 1853 he devised plan for adding
to the army twenty-five thousand
men. In the same year he proposed
to prevent bankruptcies by establish
ing public granaries This was some
how to add twelve millions to the
French revenue. In 1852 he wrote
to Madame De Pompadour, who was
still inflexible: 81 have suffered for
fourteen years let all ne buried for
ever in the blood ofJesus. Madame,
be a woman, feel some pity for my
tears, and those of q poor, desolate
mother seventy years old" But the
woman had no mercy; she turned
away her cruel face, and passed on to
the ball room, that echoed with music
music that drowned the recollec-
ton Of such mems groans. Restless
at invention, In Tude now contrived
to write on scraps OF paper, which
blew from his barred window to the
house of some ladies in the Rue de
81. Antoine, who, one April morning
! in 1T64, showed at their window a
piece Of paper, which was written, in
large characters:
YESTERDAY, THE II, DIED MADAME
THE MARQUIsE DE PoMPADouR.
La Tude at once wrote to the min.
lister, asking for his liberty. On his
refusing to name his informant he
was agin thrown into dungeon, and
in August was removed in chains to
Vincinnes. One foggy day in No
vember, 1865, La Tude, while walk
ing in the fosse, pushed through his
guards, dlsarmcd sentinel, and es-
capped. Trusting to the mercy of the
minister, Choiseul, with untiring
hopefulness, La Tude was seized and
reconsigned to his Vinoennes dunge-
on. On the accession of Louis the
Sixteenth, Nalosherbes became inter
7ted in l4o Fud6, but was told that he
IA "a mad. la Tude was then sent to
! q reuton tor two years, inaliy re-
/ lea Cd, and banished from Paris
Foolish enough to return, ne was
thrown into the Chatelet, and III llu
sent to dungeon in Bicetre. AT the
prison deliverances at the birth OF the
dnuphin, the Cardinal Rohan (after-
ward entangled with the fatal dla-
mond necklace) found La Tude ten
feet underground, his beard 1901
and a hall lCng, his clothes rags, his
food bread and water; but, assured
he was mad, the cardinal passed on to
his court intrigues. A memorial OF
La Tude's sufferings, written by MN
al the request Of president OF the
Tournelle, was lost by careless or
drunken commissionnaire. Provi'
dence, however, threw 1t into the
hands of a Madame lie Gros, who
, found it lying in the mud in the Rue
des Fosses, St. Germsin lAuxerrois
She was a warm hearted and ener
, getic woman, and set herself hear
and soul to the task of releasing th'
victim OF despotism. She won thu
; wife ofthe Swiss of the Cardinal 10
! han. then his secretary, at last the ga,
cardinal, then NJ. La Tour Dupln
!, next Madame Neckar. The revolu
= tion was letting light into many dun
e icons. Ia Tude was at last liberat
n ed. March the 18th, 1884, but banisf
/ ed, with q small pension, to Montas
+ nae. OF this exile brave Madame L
. eros also obtained the revocation
" and the same year the French Acad'
le INV bestowed on her the Montyo
y. prize of virtue. After the capture
ie the Bastile La Tude became the lie
rs of the hour and the text for patriot
y, speeches. His papers, ladders, al
'n tools were exhibited, with his po
A. trait. in a court of the Louvre. !.
IN l7O2h received a gift from the A
sn semblv ofthrce thousand francs, al
nc in 1898 obtained judgement again
le the heirs of Madame De Pompado
en- Ell of sixty thousand livrCs, but Of Il
.ur sum he never touched more than I
wy thousand livres. He wrote his Me
Hu n oirs, aud in l799 a plan of financial
Iuc form. and a scheme of saving the |
NY oublic in three months. The idol
y n flav then sank into cutirc oblivi
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