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was to be attached to his grand destinies . He came to Cannes , from then ce to Gra , sse and by St . Vallier . jje arrived during the night of the 2 d atthe village of Cerenon , having
performed twenty leagues in that first day . The people of Cannes received tfie Emperor with those sentiments which were the first presage of the success of the enterprize .
The Sd the Emperor lay at Baremej the 4 th he dined at Digne . From CastellanetoDigne and throughout the department of the Lower Alps , the peasants , informed of the march of the Emperor , ran from .. all sides on his route , and discovered their
sentiments with an energy which left nothing doubtful . The 5 th General Cambronne , with an advanced guard of forty grenadiers , took the bridge and the fortress of Sisteron . The same £ lay , the Emperor lay at Gap , with ten horsemen
and forty grenadiers . The enthusiasm with which the Emperor ' s presence inspired the inhabitants of the Lower Alps , the hatred which they bore to the noblesse , plainly discovered what
was the general wish in the province of Dauphiny . At two in the afternoon of the 6 th , the Emperor departed from Gap , the whole population of the town crowding upon his road .
At Saint-Bonnet , the . inhabitants , seeing the small number of his troop , were apprehensive , arid proposed to the Emperor to sound the toczin to assemble the villagers * , to ^ accompany him . en masse , " No , " said the j £ m-
peror , " your sentiments tell me that I a m not deceived j they assure to me the sentiments of my soldiers . Those who meet me march on my side ; the wore numerous they are , the more certain is my success . Then rest yourselves tranquil . '
At Gap thousands of proclamations were printed , addressed by the Emperor to the soldiers and the people , and some by the soldiers of the guard jo their comrades . These proclamations were dispersed , with the rapi-* ty of lightning , throughout Daupniny .
_ , a he same day the Emperor lay at viqrp . The forty men of the advanced guard of General Camlbronne ad-* "i ced as far as Mure . There they Wt with the advanced guard of a ^ i sioft of 6 opO men , troops of the < W > who had come from Grenoble
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to , stop their march . General Cambronne attempted to hold a parley with their advanced posts . . They answered that they were forbidden to hol ^ any communication . Then that advanced guard of the division of Grenoble fell back three leagues , and took a position beyond the lakes at the village of * .
The Emperor , on learning this , set off immediately . He found on the opposite line , a battalion of the 5 th of the line , a company of sappers , a company of miners , in all from 700 to 80 O men . Fie sent his officer of ordnance , the chief of the squadron , Roul , to give those troops notice of his arrival ;
but that officer could not gain a hearing . They opposed to him continually , that they were forbidden to hold any communication . The- Emperor dismounted and went directly to the battalion , followed by the guard carrying their arms reversed . He discovered himself , and said that the
first soldier that would might kill his Emperor . The unanimous shout of " Long live the Emperor I" ( viveVEmpereurlj vtas their reply . That brave regiment , had been under the Emperor's command during his first campaigns in Italy . The guard and the soldiers embraced . The soldiers of
the 5 th instantly tore off their cockade , and took with enthusiasm and with tears in their eyes , the tricoloured cockade . When they were drawn up in order of battle , the Emperor said to them , iC I come with a handful of brave men , because I
depend on the people and on you . The throne of the Bourbons is unlawful , because it was not raised by the nation . It is contrary to the national will , because it is contrary to the interests of our country , and subsists only for the interests of a few families
Ask your fathers ; inquire of the people from the neighbouring parts here assembled . You may learn from themselves the true state of affairs . They are menaced with the return of tithes , of privileges , of feudal rights , and of all the abuses from which your success had delivered them . Is it not
true , peasants ? " " Yes , Sire , " they answered , with an universal exclamation , " they have desired to attach 8 s to the soil . You are come , as . an angel of the Lord , to save us !" The brave men of the battalion of # Blank in the Monitewr *
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jyapoleons Return and Resumption . 2 < &q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/29/
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