eagerly questioned Maurice Dupin, George Sand's father, respecting the French army. They may have been interested in him as the descendant of Marshal Saxe.
Some of the United Irishmen released in 1802 went over to Paris, in the expectation that the peace would be very short, and that French help might be obtained for another rising in Ireland. It would have been well for two of them if they had remained in France,[1] for Robert Emmet and Thomas Russell were executed on their return. Macnevin was more prudent. Despairing of French aid, he quitted the French army, went to America, and resumed the medical profession.
The recovery of property confiscated by the Revolution was the object of several visitors. Philippe d'Auvergne, a native of Jersey, went in quest of the duchy of Bouillon. Not sent to France, as commonly stated, to complete his education, but captured on board the dreaded cruiser Arethusa and taken to Paris, he was introduced to the Duc de Bouillon, the last descendant of Turenne, who recognised him as a kinsman, for the Jersey Auvergnes had been Huguenot refugees. The duke, childless and on ill terms with his next of kin, had a mania for discovering Auvergnes, and was charmed with the
- ↑ As also for Arthur Thistlewood, who paid visits to France between 1799 and 1802, and returned to England in the latter year. He headed the Cato Street conspiracy, and was executed in 1820.
