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OFFICE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, CHANCERY LANE, EC.
BY JOHN C. FRANCIS.

N9
Serie
4.9

Index Supplement to the Notes and Queries, with No. 238, July 18, 1896.

STATZ OIHO

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1896.

CONTENTS.-N° 210.

To detail the manner of life of the French officer
in the enemy's country would occupy too much
space; but it is important to notice the plain
admissions made by General Fantin of the extra-
ordinary extent to which marauding was carried
by the French armies, and the manner in which
it recoiled upon them. The author writes, in 1805,
at Zusmorshausen :-

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in Church, 11-A Newspaper Editor's Reminiscences
Homer: Omar- Armorial Seal- - Rev. Dr. Glasse-W.

"Nous sommes ici en Bavière, pays dont nous devons

nos soldats se conduisent en ennemis......Il me semble
que, par des exemples de sevérité, on pourrait arrêter ces
desordres, qui ne peuvent avoir que des suites funestes,"
prophesying thoroughly the frightful murders and
reprisals afterwards described in the Peninsular
Campaigns. In 1806 the general alludes to the
systematic inroads of the army into the cellars of
the Austrian peasants, and in 1807, after Eylau,
when in cantonments at Guttstadt, upon the Alle,
to the organized system of marauding in vogue,
bringing terrible results to the miserable inhabit-
ants and strife among the different branches of the
French service. Later on, in Spain, nothing is
more noticeable than the ominous allusions made

NOTES ON BOOKS:-Baring-Gould's English Minstrelsie,' in 1808 at Vittoria to the "goût du pillage que

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Vol. III.-Cox's 'Introduction to Folk-lore'-Northall's
'Folk-Phrases '-Hooper's Church of St. Peter of Man-
croft, Norwich.'

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The allusions of General Fantin to his chiefs are

not numerous. For the Emperor, of whose Guard

he was for a time an officer, he has always the

most devoted admiration; but of him he gives

nothing that we do not already know. As in

honour bound, he is convinced of the divine mission

of Napoleon to subdue Europe; and, speaking of

Austerlitz and the Russian losses, adds,

"Une

leçon si vertement donnée paraît donc devoir être
fructueuse, et dégoûter pour longtemps les hordes
du nord de se mêler des affaires du midi de
l'Europe." To the ambitious schemes of Soult he
gives some space, and he aims a dart at the enmity
between that marshal and Ney, while he denounces
the artifice of Murat employed to gain possession
of the all-important bridge over the Danube in
1805. He also mentions, with the business-like
regret of a soldier of fortune, the light hand
exercised by Saint Cyr over the inhabitants of
Dresden in 1813. He makes a droll allusion to
the plebeian character of Marshal Lefebvre, who

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