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A FRENCH VOLUNTEER.
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pastry-cook, and M. de Volney—The Princes of Orleans — An elephant with a French driver—A trip to New York—Colonel Hamilton—Past, present, and future of the United States—I meet the Chevalier de la C—— Our recollections of M. de la Fayette—His escape from the fortress of Olmutz—Dr. Bollman—My return to Europe and arrival at Hamburg

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Arrival at Hamburg—Departure for France—I become a smuggler at Antwerp—Condition of France—My residence in France—Departure for Trieste—Joseph la Brosse, die banker—The Governors Jnnot, Bertrand, Fonche (Duke of Otranto)—Gustavson, King of Sweden—Jérôme Bonaparte 218
Biographial Notes 271