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and will show, besides, how scrupulously Bailly rite i 
all that could shed honour on our country. 
I will take the first fact from the military annals; a 
grenadier of the. French Guard saves his commanding 
officer’s life, although the people thought that they had 
great reason of complaint against him. “ Grenadier, what 
is your name?” exclaimed the Duke de Chitelet, full of 
gratitude. The soldier replied, “ Colonel, my name is 
that of all my comrades.” 
I will borrow the second fact from the civil annals: 
Stephen de Lariviére, one of the electors of Paris, had 
gone on the 20th of July, to fetch Berthier de Sauvigny, 
who had been fatally arrested at Compiégne, on the false 
report that the Assembly of the Town Hall wished to 
prosecute him as intendant of the army, by which a few 
days before the capital had been surrounded. The jour- 
ney was performed in an open cabriolet, amidst the in- 
sults of a misled population, who imputed to the prisoner 
the scarcity and bad quality of the bread. Twenty times, 
guns, pistols, sabres, would have put an end to Berthier’s 
life, if, twenty times, the member of the Commune of 
Paris had not voluntarily covered him with his body. 
When they reached the streets of the capital, the cabrio- 
let had to penetrate through an immense and compact 
crowd, whose exasperation bordered. on delirium, and 
who evidently wished to perpetrate the utmost extremi- 
ties ; not knowing which of the two travellers was the 
Intendant of Paris, they betook themselves to crying 
out, “let the prisoner take off his hat!” Berthier obeyed, 
but Lariviere uncovered his head also at the same 
instant. 
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