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    LIV.—MADAME MARIE P APE-CARP ANTIER.

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    « Marie Cakpantiee -was born at La Fleeh...

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    Liv.—Madame Marie P Ape-Carp Antier.

    LIV . —MADAME MARIE P APE-CARP _ANTIER .

    « Marie Cakpantiee -Was Born At La Fleeh...

    « Marie _Cakpantiee -was born at La Fleehe , ( a little town in the

    Department of Sarthe , in the west of France , ) on the 18 th of September 1815 . Four months before her birthher fathera

    _vnarechal des , logis de _gendarmeine _, faithfully devoted , to the firs , t Napoleon-was assassinated by the Chouans during the Cent Jours .

    The Chouans , were the irregular bands of peasant troops who fought for the Bourbons in _Bretagneand who dealt death from their

    hiding-places with little regard , to the customs of regular warfare . M . Carpantier fell at the head of his detachment under the following

    touching circumstances : —Napoleon was at Paris after his return from Elba , and the military authority in France was for the moment

    in his hands . News came to La Fleche that a band of Chouans were devastating the neihboring district of Courcellesand M .

    Carpantier led out his detachment g against them . He had , to traverse a forest , in the midst of which was a chateau and park . The

    Chouans took refuge in the chateau and fired from the top of the walls upon the gendarmerie , of whom three were killed . One of

    these men had a bunch of violets in his mouth ; the ball cut the flowers in twoand he fell stark and dead . The second was hit

    in the thigh , and , died of the amputation of the limb . The third . was yi . Carpantier himselfwho was severelwounded in a vital

    part of b , it but in 1 lingered their balls several before hours , loadin . The their Chouans y had in a order cruel tha custom t the _,

    gunshot g wounds they inflicted mig g ht be m guns ore , dangerous , and it was in a great measure to the fact of this ball having an irregular

    shape that M . Carpantier perished . He had concealed about his person at the moment he was struck a packet of letters for Marshal

    Moncey , with whom he regularly communicated at Paris . He never trusted any one to post these letters but himself ; and , fearful lest ,

    after his death , they might be suffered to fall into the hands of the Chouans , he raised himself with difficulty on his elbow and ordered

    them to " be burnt before his face . This done , he asked for something to drinka lass of water was brought to himbut in the act of

    approaching ; g it to his lips he expired . Thus , perished a gallant soldier whose name lingered long in his districtbut whose deeds

    oflicial Immedi mention ately obliterated or official by reward the return . of the Bourb , ons , received no ,

    To this sorrow rapidly succeeded another—the death of the . eldest daughtera charming child of eight years oldkilled by a

    shot from one of , her father ' s pistols , with which a young , nurse was inrprudeiitllaying .

    One infa y nt p son remained to Madame Cantierto whom in due time came the little Marie . But with arp her father , worldly

    comfort had deserted the household ;—the means were very narrow ,,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/10/