The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-06-05
NAPOLEON BY GERARD.

right bank of the Rhine were infested
BY them. The descendants Of the Houses
Of Bourbon, of Orleans, Of Conde, fit
ted dimly in the horizon. They had
their following. Their secret friends
squatted'in tho very shadow Of the Tuil
cries. AS for open war, they had had
enough Of that OF secret intrigues and
plots and crimes there was now no end.
The conspiracy which exploded in the
Rue st. Nicaise was only the beginning
Of plots and plotting. 1t is i'll evidence
that the agents Of the British govern
msns lent q willing hand to the secret
crimes that were to compass the de-
%rnaion Of Bonaparte. On his side
there was corresponding Vigilance: 1t
was equivalent to death for any to lift
the hand against him. His Immediate
subordinatss We're without exception
loyal But all the disappointed, hover
Ing at a distance, scowled at his rising
star. ~
Among the plots Of the day that of
Georges Cadoudal, leader of sho Chouans
Of Brittany, was conspicuous. From be-
ing an insurgent in the Royalist revolt
of 1909, he had fed to England, where
the count Of Artois, afterwards Charles
X, received Elm with open arms. In
1903 he made his way secretly to Paris.
There he oonspired with the disgraced
General Piohegru; Napoleon's old mas
ter In mathematics ut Brienne, to de-
stroy the life Of the First Consul The
plot was discovered, Piohegru was seiz-
ed, imprisoned, and on the 9Th of April
1904, was strangled in his cell Cadou-
dial, trying to escape, killed two police
men, but was overmastered, condemned,
and on the Goth Of june 1904, was gull
,lotined General Moreau, the hero of
Hohenlinden. who had become Royal
ist, was accused Of completely in these
schemes. Convicted of having knowl-
edge Of the plot of Cadoudal, he was
condemned to two years imprisonment
but Napoleon committed the sentence
into exile, and Moreau chose the United
States as his refuge. After eight years,
he entered the service of Russia, and in
1918 was mortally wounded at the bat
tie Of Dresden.
The result Of these attempts was far
reaching. At this time tho living repre-
sentatives of the demolished monarchy
were the connt Of Provence, afterwards
Louis XVIII, who was ut Warsaw; the
count Of Artois, in London; the yonng
Orleans Philippe, afterwards the Citi-
zen King, In Switzerland: and the duke
Of Enghien, descendant of the great
Condo, at Ettenheim, in Baden. All of
these wsro more Or less implicated in
the plots against Napoleon. The duke
Of Enghien in particular was believed to
be follow conspirator of Pichegru and
Cadoudal. The latter had been secretly
visited in Paris by d mysterious person.
age whom the passion of the hour de-
clared to be the Condo prince. Notwith-
standing the fact that Baden was neu-
trail territory, body Of French soldiers
was sent secretly to Ettenheim; the cha-
teai was surrounded, and on the night
of the 18th of March, 1904, the due
d'Eughien was seized in bed and hur-
ried away to the fortress Of Vinoennes.
A court-martial under General HUI
lin was Immediately ordered, and with
out witnesses or other legal proof, the
Duke was condemned to bs shot On
the morning Of the 2ist of March, just
before the day, he was led into the ditch
outside the wall, and there, BY the
CHASTITY ligLs of torches, was shot dead
His body was thrown, without removal
Of the bloody garments, into pit that
had been digged the day before, The
Consulate, as we'll as the Revolution