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MEMOIR OP LE VAILLANT. 
way for Ms liberation. To the downfal of that 
sanguinary tyrant he owed the preservation of his 
life. 
Quitting these wretched scenes of turbulence and 
assassination, he retired to a small property which 
he possessed at La Noue, near Sezanne, and wMch 
became Ms favourite residence during the remainder 
of his life. In tMs agreeable retirement, his time 
was divided between the composition of Ms works 
and the gratification of Ms inextinguishable passion 
for bird- shooting, which led Mm to make frequent 
excursions into the fields and woods in his vicinity. 
Here he spent the last thirty years of Ms life, 
seldom leaving his retreat unless when occasionally 
obliged to visit Paris for the purpose of superintend- 
ing the printing of Ms works. He died on the 22d 
of November 1824, at the age of seventy-one. 
M. Le Vaillant wrote a considerable number of 
volumes, the greater part of wMch were devoted to 
the illustration of Ms favourite department of Natu- 
ral History. The first work wMch he published 
was entitled “ Travels in the Interior of Africa, 
from the Cape of Good Hope.” It appeared in 
1790 at Paris, in 1 vol. 4to., or 2 vols. 8vo., with 
engravings. His next publication was “ A Second 
Journey into the Interior of Africa, by the Cape of 
Good Hope, in 1 783-84-85,” which also appeared 
at Paris in 1796, in 2 vols. 4to., embellished w f ith 
maps and figures. 
As has often happened with travellers and navi- 
gators, who are generally better qualified to make 
