Memoirs of General Pépé: Comprising the Principal Military and Political Events of Modern Italy, Volumen2R. Bentley, 1846 |
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Página 128 - Ne m'oublie jamais, ne maudis jamais ma memoire ; je meurs innocent. Ma vie ne fut « tachee d'aucune injustice. Adieu, mon Achille ! Adieu, ma Letitia ! Adieu, mon Lucien ! Adieu, ma Louise ! Montrez-vous au monde dignes de moi. Je vous laisse sans royaume et sans biens, au milieu de mes nombreux ennemis. Soyez constamment unis ; montrez-vous...
Página 130 - His orders were executed : and thus perished, pierced by twelve bullets, at forty-eight years of age, the brave soldier who had come scathless out of so many battles, and who, when seated on the throne, had never known how to refuse to pardon. A few days after, his head was severed from his body, enclosed in a glass vessel filled with spirits of wine, and sent to Naples, where it was preserved in the royal palace. His body was interred in that very church of Pizzo, for the erection of which he had...
Página 129 - ... Louise; montrez-vous au monde dignes de moi. Je vous laisse sans royaume et sans biens, au milieu de mes nombreux ennemis Soyez constamment unis ; montrez-vous supérieurs à l'infortune; pensez à ce que vous êtes et à ce que vous avez été, et Dieu vous bénira. Ne maudissez point ma mémoire. Sachez que ma plus grande peine, dans les derniers momens de ma vie, est de mourir loin de mes enfans. Recevez la bénédiction paternelle ; recevez mes embrassemens et mes larmes. Ayez toujours- présent...
Página 113 - Within the space of ten years we had made [under Napoleon] more progress than our ancestors had done in three centuries. We had acquired the French civil, criminal, and commercial codes; we had abolished the feudal system, and justice was administered with improved methods.
Página 130 - ... to refuse to pardon. A few days after, his head was severed from his body, enclosed in a glass vessel filled with spirits of wine, and sent to Naples, where it was preserved in the royal palace. His body was interred in that very church of Pizzo, for the erection of which he had given, years before, the sum of two thousand ducats. At that mournful ceremony, General Nunziante behaved nobly.
Página i - Memoirs, comprising the Principal Military and Political Events of Modern Italy, written by Himself. 3 vols.
Página 121 - ... of an isolated shore. By some misunderstanding the ship did not come to the place where the King was expecting it ; after passing the night on the borders of the sea, Joachim was obliged when it became light, to enter a vineyard, where he found a temporary refuge in the hut of a peasant.
Página 130 - Murat himself against the- disturbers of the public i peace. When they read to him the iniquitous sentence, he heard it with calmness and a smile of contempt. He was then conducted to a retired spot, and placed in front of a file of twelve soldiers. Disdaining to allow his eyes to be bound, and holding the portraits of his wife and children in his hand, he said in a firm voice, " Aim at my heart, and spare my face.
Página 127 - Medici, which his colleagues repeated to their confidential friends, with other reasons urged by the English minister, decided the fate of Murat. To ensure the prompt execution of this decision, orders were sent by telegraph to assemble a courtmartial to condemn Joachim to death : a sentence which was to be immediately carried into effect. As an anxiety to satisfy the desires of King Ferdinand was a predominant feeling in the minds of his ministers, they sent the Prince Canosa into Calabria, with...
Página 128 - ... orders sent by telegraph, assembled a court-martial. With an excess of baseness hardly credible, it was exclusively composed of officers who had served Murat, who had been benefited by him, and who owed the very rank they held in the army to brevets signed by his hand. They might have refused to obey so cruel and infamous an order, which would only have entailed upon them the loss of their commission, and three months...