Nelly Cormon

Jean Dax

Julien Clément

Paul Gavault

The episode occurred in 1532. The Duke de Berry, who was the son of Charles X, had been assassinated during the reign of Louis XVIII and the old royalist party, counting on the fact that the peasantry of La Vendee still retained t...

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The episode occurred in 1532. The Duke de Berry, who was the son of Charles X, had been assassinated during the reign of Louis XVIII and the old royalist party, counting on the fact that the peasantry of La Vendee still retained their adherence to the old reigning house, planned to attempt an insurrection to regain the crown for the son of the Duke de Berry, the Duke of Bordeaux. "Surely," thought they, "if a Bourbon is put forward the peasants of La Vendee will rise as one man." The Duchess de Berry was not unnaturally chosen to head the insurrection which was to win a throne for her son. However, the uprising was crushed in the very beginning and the Duchess was obliged to flee disguised to Nantes, where she took refuge in the house of her friends, two sisters known as de Guigny. For five months she remained hidden, but the offer of a large reward by the government induced one of her party, a man named Deutz, to betray her whereabouts. Nevertheless, when the house of the two sisters was searched, the Duchess was not to be found; she bad been hidden away in a secret closet behind the fireplace and no trace of her remained. Deutz, though nonplussed, stuck to his statement, and stayed behind in the house with some of the soldiers sent to make the arrest. Still puzzled and discountenanced, his mind reverted to the possibility of a hiding place and he commenced to tap the walls. He soon perceived that the one above the fireplace gave forth a hollow sound and immediately gave orders for a fire to be built there. The prisoner behind the wall, forced to cry aloud on account of the ever increasing heat, was discovered, arrested and conveyed to the fortress at Blaye. Deutz repaired to the government offices in Paris to collect his reward. After counting the notes, the official, rather than touch again the blood money, picks them up with the fire tongs and with n look of absolute disgust presents them thus at arm's length.

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