But we cannot do so with propriety: facts, stern,
untoward, cruel facts, stare us in the face, and would make even the
novelist blush, were he, in total disregard of well-thumbed history, to
attempt so very false a fiction.
Still it is necessary that something should be said of the subsequent
adventures of those with whom we have for a while been so intimate, some
short word spoken of the manner in which they adhered to the cause which
was so dear to them. We cannot leave them in their temporary sojourn at
Laval, as though a residence there was the goal of their wishes, the end
of their struggle, the natural and appropriate term of their story; but
as, unfortunately, their future career was not a happy one, we will beg
the reader to advance with us at once over many years; and then, as he
looks back upon La Vendee, through the softening vista of time, the
melancholy termination of its glorious history will be lees painful.
On the 7th July, 1815, the united English and Prussian armies marched
into Paris, after the battle of Waterloo, and took military possession
of the city.
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