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A FRENCH VOLUNTEER
OF THE
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
CHAPTER I.
Birth — Early days — Education — Out in the world — Sent to the prison of Pierre-en-Cize by order of the King.
My father — César de Moré Chaliers, Comte de Pontgibaud — has often informed me that I came into the world on 21st April 1758.[1] My mother, whose maiden name was Marie Charlotte de Salaberry, was, I believe, at that time a young and pretty woman, but I can recollect very little about her, as she died whilst I was still very young, from a shock caused by being suddenly told some bad news.
I derive my family title from the noble old castle in which my father and mother lived.
The château possessed battlements, solid walls, towers
- ↑ See note A, p. 193, as to the actual words employed in the original
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