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has been made a general.html">general.html">general, been more the scene of his devastations than
butchered, and the millions he plundered; that with hands reeking with
had given to sanctity, to ornament the fingers of an assassin, or
and 1797, in Italy, are too numerous to find place in any letter, even
to be believed. He frequently transformed the temples of the divinity
themselves to remain unpolluted servants of a God, he bayoneted into dens
himself. In August, 1797, on his way to Paris to take command of the
imprisoned the representatives of the people of the legislative body, he
draft for fifty louis d'or on the municipality of that town, who dared
Gendral Melas, who sent it to Vienna, where I saw the very original.
The general and grand officer of Bonaparte's Legion of Honour, Van Damme,
of a Flemish barber, he enlisted as a soldier, robbed, and was condemned
but he was burnt on the shoulders, flogged by the public executioner, and
fetters, made him a Jacobin, a patriot, and a general; but the first use
guillotined, and to appropriate to himself the estate of the family. He
and plunder in Holland and Germany; but Bonaparte restored him to rank
properly applied and divided between some of the members of the Bonaparte
chief of the ci-devant Flanders. In landed property, in jewels, in
six hundred thousand livres--in gold), his riches amount to eight
slave, you must grant this is a very modest sum.
from the best and often authentic information, I have informed you our
catalogue of private rapine committed, without authority, by our
. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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