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to collect some boats at MirJbell , with the intention of passing over in the night aad intercepting the roads of Moulins and of Macon against the Prince , who would forbid him the passage of the Rhone . At four , a detachment ( reconnaissance ) of the 4 th
hussars arrived at the Guillotiere and # as received with cries of " Long live the Emperor . " by that immense popu lation of a suburb * which has been always distinguished by its attachment to the country . The passage of Mirbell was countermanded , and the Emperor galloped to Lyons at the head of the troops who had advanced
to forbid his entry . The Count D'Artois had tried every method to secure the trdbps . He was ignorant that this cannot be effected io France by the agent of a stranger , and who is not on the side of national
honour and of the cause of the people . Passing before the ISth regiment of dragoons , he said to a brave man whom scars and three chevrons decorated , «« Come along , comrade , cry then , Long live the King I" « No , Sir , "
answered the brave dragoon , * ' a soldier cannot fight against his father ! I can only answer you by crying , Long live the Emperor ? " The Count D'Artois stepped into his carriage , and quitted Lyons , escorted by a single dragoon .
At nine at night the Emperor traversed the Guillotiere almost unattended , but surrounded by an immense population . The next day , the 1 Itfi , he reviewed the whole division of Lyons , and the brave General Brayer prepared to march at its head to advauce
upon the Capital . The sentiments which , during two days , the inhabitants of that great city and the neighbouring peasantry , declared to the Emperor , so affected "im that he could only express to
* neni what he felt by saying , " Lyon-^ is ! I love you . " It isthe second time jjjat the acclamations of that city have " ^ n the presage of new destinies reeved for France .
f » i e 13 tk » » t three in the afternoon , tne Emperor arrived at Villefranche , a » maJl town of 4000 souls , which <*> tttained at that time more than W , 00 o . He alighted at the Hotel-de-Ule . a great number of wounded tt * Were P resented to him . H « entered Macon at seven in the
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evening , constantly surrounded by the people of the neighbouring cantons . He expressed his astonishment to the Maconnois on account of the little they had done , in the last war , to defend themselves against the enemy , and to sustain the honour of the
Bourgug-nons . * ' Sire , why did you appoint for us a bad mayor ?" At Tournus the Emperor had only praises to give the inhabitants for the good conduct and patriotism , which , in the same circumstances , had
distinguished Tournus , Chalons and St , Jean-de-L 6 ne . At Chalons , where , during forty hours , they resisted the forces of the enemy and disputed the passage of the Saone , the Emperor recounted various , instances of
bravery ; and not being able to visit St . Jean-de-L 6 ne , he would at least send the decoration of the Legion of Honour to the worthy mayor of that town . On that occasion the Emperor exclaimed , ** It is for you , brave people , that I instituted the Legion of Honour * and not for the emigrants pensioned by our enemies . "
The Emperor received at Chalons the deputation from the town of Dijon , who applied to him to remove from them the prefect and the unworthy mayor , who , in the last
campaign , had disgraced Dijon and the Dijonnois . The Emperor deprived the mayor and appointed another , and g ^ ve the command of the division to the brave General Devaux .
The 15 th the Emperor lay at Autun , and proceeding from Autun , he lay the l 6 th at Avallon . He found on that route the same sentiments as in the mountains of Dauphiny . He re-established in their posts all the functionaries who had been deprived for having contributed to the defence
of their country against the Stranger . The inhabitants of ChifFey especially , were exposed to the persecutions of one Freluguet , sub-prefect of Semur , for having taken arms against the enemies of our country . The Emperor ordered a brigadier of gendarmerie to arrest that sub-prefect and imprison him at Avallon .
, The Emperor breakfasted the 17 th at Vermanton , and proceeded to Auxeire , where the Prefect Garnot remained faithful at his post . The brave 14 th had trodden under foot the white cockade . The Emperor was informed that the 6 th of the lancers had
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Napoleaft ' s Return and Resumption . 231
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/31/
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