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made by his enemies, but the son was again a prisoner in England, in 

 spite of the father's appeal to Cornwallis to remember his release on 

 parole at Yorktown. The younger Rochambeau finally returned to 

 France, was made General of Division, and lost his life at the battle of 

 Leipsic, in 1813. The father had died in 1807, and a grandson, a young 

 cavalry officer of great promise, praised by Davoust and promoted to a 

 staff position, lost his leg in the same engagement, and was thus com- 

 pelled to return to civil life. He lived and died at Rochambeau, and the 

 stately Chateau is rich in relics of these three generations of gallant 

 soldiers and of many ancestors of distinction in both civil and military 

 life. The present Marquis de Rochambeau, himself no mean scholar in 

 history and archeology, has printed an interesting little volume of sketches 

 written bj^ the j'ounger General de Rochambeau during the last years of the 

 eighteenth century, and when he was a prisoner of war in England be- 

 tween 1803 and 1811 ; they are drawn from his personal knowledge of the 

 men and events hastily described — Danton, Robespierre, Barrcre, (jarnot, 

 Brissot, Montesquieu, Custines, Biron, Pichegru, among them not a few 

 who had served with the French Army in the American War of Inde- 

 pendence, and some of whom achieved great distinction under Napoleon. 

 It is curious to find that Gen. de Rochambeau suggests that the Duke of 

 ■ Kent be sent to command in Nova Scotia, in the hope that the dissatisfied 

 party in the United States might find in him a possible candidate for 

 President, making the office hereditary. As the elder Rochambeau had 

 suggested to a Brunswick Prince the possibility of founding an empire in 

 America, so the younger Rochambeau believed that the English Govern- 

 ment had an idea that Americans still cherished a secret affection for the 

 house of Hanover. 



The Marquis de Rochambeau has printed, too, several valuable archeo- 

 logical works and an account of the Chateau de Rochambeau. He calls 

 attention to the curious rock grottoes on the hillsides around it, the work 

 of more than twenty centuries back, for he traces them to the Celts, and 

 has found evidences of their handiwork, ancient dwelling places of the 

 very earliest dwellers in the region, and their burial places, too, for skele- 

 tons of great antiquity, and other evidences of Druidical worship of the 

 third century, have been found there. The estates were in the family 

 from the eleventh to the twelfth century, and the deeds and other muni- 

 ments of title have been preserved from the fifteenth century, beginning 

 in 1486, although members of the family are known to have taken part in 

 the Crusades, one of them under St. Louis of France falling in battle iu 

 Egypt in 1251, while another in return for his services in a campaign in 

 Iialy was granted as motto for his shield the device : " Vivre en preux y 

 mourir. ' ' 



From 1516 the Chateau and estate of Rochambeau gave the name borne 

 by the family, and among them some were distinguished in the wars of 

 the League, others iu the navy, one under Jean Bart was made Commodore 

 in 1741, and another Governor of Veudome was succeeded in that office 



