Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-17

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OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.
Count de Lavallett's Escape from the
Fate of Marshal Ncy-How He was
saved by His Courageous Wife.
The presence Of Col. Ney in the
United States as a delegate from France
on the occasion of the dedication of the
statue Of Liberty lends an added inter-
est to the death of the Baron de Foyet,
which occurred a few days ago in this
city. writes Paris correspondent of
The NeW York World. When Col.
Ney's grandfather, Marshal Ney, THE
Brayest of the Brave" was shot in 1915,
with his comrades. for having given his
allegiance to Napoleon after the latter's
| return from the island of Elba, the only
| one who escaped was the Count de La
vallette, father OF the late baroness,
who was the daughter of Emile de
Beauharnas, niece of the Empress
Josephine, was at that time 81 years of
age. The father, who SO narrowly es-
capped death. was project Of the Aude
in 1882, and wasArowned while fording
the River Allier in 1885,
Horace Vernet, in his picture of
~ Evasion dc Ia Conciergerie, has
immortalzed the scene in which the
late baroness PLAYED so conspicuous a
part On Nov. 20. 1915. Count de La
vallette was condemned to death by the
jury of the Seine, and was to be execu,
ted the following day for his allegiance
to Napoleon.
His wife, accompanied by her little
daughter, the late baroness. and a
faithful old femme de chGmbre, came to
the conciergerie at $3.50 2. NJ, and
asked permission OF the ia;ler to dine
in the prison with her husband before
the execution. The jailer, who was a
tender-hearted man, assented, when
the child begged to spend last hour
with her father At o'clock the child
| and the old femme de chana5re appear
ed at the prison gate and asked the
jailer to let them pass. Leaning on
the arm of each was Nine. de Law all
cite. her face hidden in her handker-
chief. The child, who was crying bit
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diverted from her mother. All the en-
ployes of the prison were present and
saw the two women and the child leave.
Their ':identity'' was established and
written in the Jail register.
A few minutes later the concierge en-
tered the cell of Count de Lavallette
and found there the condemnded man $
wife dressed in her husbands clothes.
''Ah! madame he exclaimed, II am
lost! Madame badgered him for a
while to gain time, while her daughter
was Leading her husband to safety.
The concierge, on realizing his position,
| spread the news, and in few moments
the gendarmes were in full chase after
Count dc Lavallette. But the count,
accompanied by his little daughter had
mounted a cabriolet, and was gallop-
ing toward the Belgian frontier. Aft
er many hair-breadth escapes he reach
cd Belgian territority next day. His
safe arrival in Belgium, he always
said, was due to the presence of mind
of his 12-ye'ar-old daughter, the late
baroness.
When King Louis XVIII, newly re-
stored to the throne and filled with
hate toward the Bonapartists. heard OF
the counts escape he remarked to the
Due de Decazes, his project of police:
''Mme. Lavallettee and her little
daughter have only done their duty. -
And after a pause he added: ..But the
chamber of deputies will say it was me
| who did it. -
! Mime de Lavellette, her daughter, and
the femme de cltambre were brought to
trial, and were defended by the then
famous lawyer, NJ. Dupin. A curious
feature of the trial was that the three
were acquitted by the same jury that
had condemned Count de Lavellettee to
death a few days before.
The late baroness kept Horace Yer
nets picture of the Escape in con-
spicuous part of her salon. No. SO Rue
La Rochefoucauld, for many years.
Opposite was Splendid picture of the
/ Empress Josephine and her two child
| rem. Prince Eugene and Queen Hor-
tense. mother of Napoleon III. Among
the other ornaments of the salon were
a white marble bust OF Napoleon l., by
Canova; the tield-glass which Napoleon
used Mt the battle of Austerltz when
directing his legions; the saber of Mou-
tad Bey. presented by the then Gen.
!. Bonaparte to his aid-de-camp, Count
de Lavaliette, on the evening of the day
Of the battle of the Pyramids.
! Nine. de Lavallettee, mother of the
late Baroness, died in 1855, in the same
mansion where her daughter died the
other day. The episode Of her husband.
escape hauntedher all her life, anda few
minutes before her death she arose
from her pillow, and. addressing hel
daughter. shrieked; Quick! quick!
can not detain the jailer much longer!''
The Baroness de Foyet. though always
painfully mindful of the daring episode,
could never be induced to talk about it.
When Napoleon III. came to the
throne lie did not forget his cousins, the
ILavalittes, Il but Nine. de Lavallette
would receive no favors from him and
would have nothing to do with him.
i She never even visited the Tulleries.
4 When she died Napoleon LII. sent his
aid-de- camp, IN full uaifornl, to repre-.
sent him at the funeral, for which the
late Baroness de Foyet simply returned
formal note Of thanks. The baroness
q held q conspic place among the
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