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"It was you that brought us here," said de Lescure, "and you must not
now avoid the responsibility."
"Ah! M. de Lescure," said he, "there are so many more fitting than me."
"Not one in all La Vendee," said M. Bonchamps: "sit where you are,
Cathelineau."
"You must do it, Cathelineau;" whispered his friend Foret; "the peasants
would not endure to see any man put above you."
"Cathelineau will not shrink from the burden which the Lord has called
upon him to bear," said Father Jerome.
"Providence," said d'Elbee, "has summoned the good Cathelineau to this
high duty; he will not, I am sure, oppose its decrees."
And thus Cathelineau found himself seated in the Mayor's chair at the
head of the table, whilst the highest noblemen and gentry of the country
took their places around it, and from that moment Cathelineau became the
General-in-Chief of the Vendeans.
Each leader then gave in the numbers of the men who had come with him,
and it was found that the army consisted of above fifteen thousand men.


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