642 Original Anecdotes.—Genfonne. .. Guadet. . « Moreau, tc. [ Sept. 
racter, muft defire to come at the exact 
truth in this matter. 
A French emigrant, who appeared to 
know much of the leading families of 
France and of their private hiftory, was 
lately mentioning, that Madame de 
Grouchy univerfally paffed for a.caft-off 
miftrefs, who by her complaifance and 
dexterity, had obtained the bond in guef- 
tion; and that at the time of her marri- 
age, the was announced as arich ward of 
the Rochefoucauld family, whom they 
had introduced to the attention ef Con- 
dorcet. Whether he knew or knew not 
her real relation to them, the charge of 
ingiatene, in exacting her dower, muft, 
on this ftatement, fall away. The death 
of. the Duke is:knewn to have been con- 
nected with the September maflacre ; 
and cannot, of courfe, be fairly charged, 
direétly. or indireétly., upon one of the 
Girondift party, the leaders of which 
virtuoufly facrificed their own lives, in 
the attempt to bring the inftigators of 
that horror to punifhment. 
GENSONNE, _. 
5 Fo, Pet al 
Born at Bourdeaux, in 17§8, and educat- 
ed for the bar, was.returned a member 
for the Giroude, and became one of the 
leaders of that illuftrious body, diftin- 
guifhed by the name of the department 
whence they were delegated. He was 
cool, tranquil, intrepid.. He abhorred 
the mountain party, and was at once dreaded 
and detefted by that faétion, which, on 
the 31ft of Ogtober, 1793, revenged all 
his accufations and farcafms, by means of 
the guillotine. He was a good father, a 
good citizen, an excellent man, and a. 
fincere republican ; but he was a logi- 
cian rather than an orator. 
GUADET er 
Was an orator, but nota logician ; he ex- 
celled in what we term a fet /peech—but 
few of the men of that day could fpeak 
extempore. ‘He fat both in the legiflative 
and conventional aflemblies, and efcaped 
the bloody profcription of the twenty- 
‘ene deputies, only tu perifh by a more 
horrible deftiny ! He alfo, was a good 
father, and a good hufband, for it may 
be neceffary to inform the ignorant and 
the prejudiced, that there were good 
men in France, pofterior to the defertion 
of the clerical and titled emigrants. 
MOREAU | 
Ts a native of Morlaix, in the c7-devant 
Bretanny, 29 miles diftant from Brett. 
When akout 8 years of age, he was fent 
to be printed *, 
> 
to Rennes, to ftudy the law; and he whe 
might have proved but am indifferent 
avocat, has, at the age of 33, acquired 
the charaéter of a fkilful commander. 
He firft diftinguifhed himfelf in Hol- 
land; and then ferved with great éc/at 
ander Pichegru. The late brilliant paf- 
fage acrofs the Rhine, without the-lofs. 
of a fingle man, was achieved under his 
aufpices. His father ts faid to have pe- 
rifhed during the tyranny of Robefpierre ; 
the fon is a zealous republican, and fights 
and conquers im that caufe. 
Tue ABBE DE LILLE, 
Like the bards of old, is at once a poet 
and a mufician ; and; in confequence of 
a rare union of both charafters, he com- 
pofed the Marfeillois Hymn, which, by 
connecting his name with the hiftory of 
the French Revolution, will render. it 
immortal. ‘ 
In addition to his other works, he has 
meditaréd a poem on the * Imagination, ” 
for what is fingular. enough, this has 
never as yet been committed to paper. 
The truth is, that the Abbé, relying on 
his extraordinary memory, never copies 
out any of his verfes, until they are about 
He was arrefted during the fhort-lived 
tyranny of Robefpierre ; and if he had 
perifhed on that occafion, both the poem 
and the poet would have been loft to- 
gether! 
| LEQUINIO. | 
As Anacharfis Cloots: termed himfelf, 
“ the orator of the human race,” fo Le= 
quinio aflumed the title * citizen of the 
globe.” The latter was @ patriot previ- 
oufly to the revolution, and a republican 
before the decree for the abolition of mo- 
narchy. He fat in the convention, and 
voted for the death of Louis. His cele- 
brated work, * Les Préjugés Détruits,’ 
abounds every where with marks of ge- 
nius. Itwas printed at Paris: ** anno 
eventus, quo reges & facerdotes,.ab orbe 
terrarum obliterandi.”” (1792) M. Le- 

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feintre, Robert, perdu pendent quelques heures fans 
guide SF fans fambeau dans les immenfes fouterrains 
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poéme n° eft point imprimé; fi Pauteur eut peri, 
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car Monf. ? Abbé de Lille fe repofant fuer fon ex- 
cellente mémsire n’écrit jamais les vers qu’il compofe 
que lorfqu’il veut les livrer & Pimpreffion.’—This 
note was written YY Madame de Genuts afew 
weeks fince, Pie 
quinie. 
