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X17 EIO GRAPHICAL NOTICE thinors better tlian anvbodv : liave an eve to these fellows go down into the kitchen, and see that they don't cheat ns. Good health to you, gentlemen." Whilst they are drinking, ISIichaud rises, and is soon. out of the house. Giguet had the art to keep the guards another half-hour at table, by sa^Tng his friend was only watching the cooking, for a Bresse piillet was worth nothing if not roasted a la Bresse ; and when thev discovered Michaud was not in the kitchen, he asserted it must either be a joke, or else he was ill, and gone home; and contrived to lead tliem a long useless search in a way dii'ectly opposite to that which he knew the late prisoner had taken. Michaud' s escape was a happy one; for that very day, the council had condemned him to death. Poor Giguet' friendly zeal cost him nearly a month's imprisonment, and placed his life even in jeopardy. The career of Buonaparte was so successful, that, at length, further resistance seemed useless, and Michaud even wrote complimentary verses on the marriage of Napoleon with Maria Louisa, and upon the birth of the young king of Rome. But this submission to circumstances was no,voluntarv homas:^; he was still at heart faithfullv attached to the Bourbons. For a length of time he resisted the tempting offers of the emperor, and one of his refusals, for its wit, if not for its patriotism, almost deserves to be placed by the side of Andrew Marvel's. Fontaines, Buonaparte's emissary, said to him : " There must be an end to all resistance ; it is diminishing every day. Come, do as other men do. Look at Delille, for instance, he has just accepted a pension of six thousand francs." "Oh! as to that," replied Michaud, " he is so frightened, that he would accept a pension of a hundred thousand francs, if vou were to offer it to him." Posterity, perhaps, may be thankful that he was di*iven from politics to literature. During one of his necessary exiles, he had written his beautiful poem of " Le Printemps d'un Proscrit :" he afterwards became associated with his brother as a bookseller, and planned and executed the works of which we will furnish a list. T^'hatever opinion might be entertained of his talents, it is more than probable that without his implied submission to Buonaparte, he never would have obtained that object of the hopes of all French authors, the immortal fauteuil in the Academy. This honour s:
BIOGEAPHICAL NOTICE. XV he attained in 1818, and, upon the publication of his fourth volume of the "History of the Crusades," had the gratification of signing himself " Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem," and " Knight of the Holy Sepulchre :" titles bestowed upon him, unasked, by the commanders representing the order of St. John of Jerusalem in France. He watched with intense anxiety the madly ambitious career of Buonaparte, and hailed with unfeigned delight the return of his patrons, the Bourbons. He had no cause to complain of their ingratitude, and occupied as good a position as a literary man could expect, when the escape from Elba, during a hundred days, disturbed his occupations, and placed him in considerable danger. He left Paris ; returned again, and put himself forward for a struggle : but finding resistance dangerous and useless, he retired to the department of the Am, where he concealed himself till the tempest had blown over ; his celebrated journal, the Quotidienne, in the mean time, degenerating into the Feuille du Jour, or rather, as a wit said, " La Eeuille de la veille (last night's journal) ; for it was only edited by scissors, and contained nothing but scraps from the Moniteur and other inoffensive journals." The JVain Jaune (yellow dwarf) took unfair advantage of an enemy, who, he knew, could not answer him, and bestowed upon JMichaud the sobriquet of " G-rand Master of the Order of the Extinguishers," which stuck to him with the burlike pertinacity of sobriquets, for many years after the second restoration of the Bourbons. He welcomed this last event by the publication of a pamphlet entitled " The History of the Eifteen Weeks, or the Last Eeign of Buona- parte," which had a great sale, twenty-seven editions of it appearing in a very short period. Having, since his success as an author, separated from his brother as a bookseller, and sold his share in the printing office, he, after 1815, gave himself -up to the prosecution of his great work on the crusades, and even parted with his portion of " La Biographie Universelle." His love of politics led him, at this time, to get returned as deputy for the department of the Ain : but alas ! he found it a very different thing for a man with a weak voice, and totally " unaccustomed to public speaking," to sit and write uncontrolled and imobserved in his closet, and to be subject to the "retort courteous" of an enemy —
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BIOGEAPHICAL NOTICE. XV<br />
he attained in 1818, and, upon the publication of his fourth<br />
<strong>volume</strong> of the "History of the Crusades," had the gratification<br />
of signing himself " Knight of the Order of St. John<br />
of Jerusalem," and " Knight of the Holy Sepulchre :" titles<br />
bestowed upon him, unasked, by the commanders representing<br />
the order of St. John of Jerusalem in France.<br />
He watched with intense anxiety the madly ambitious<br />
career of Buonaparte, and hailed with unfeigned delight the<br />
return of his patrons, the Bourbons. He had no cause to<br />
complain of their ingratitude, and occupied as good a position<br />
as a literary man could expect, when the escape from<br />
Elba, during a hundred days, disturbed his occupations, and<br />
placed him in considerable danger. He left Paris ; returned<br />
again, and put himself forward for a struggle : but finding<br />
resistance dangerous and useless, he retired to the department<br />
of the Am, where he concealed himself till the tempest<br />
had blown over ; his celebrated journal, the Quotidienne, in<br />
the mean time, degenerating into the Feuille du Jour, or<br />
rather, as a wit said, " La Eeuille de la veille (last night's<br />
journal) ; for it was only edited by scissors, and contained<br />
nothing but scraps from the Moniteur and other inoffensive<br />
journals." The JVain Jaune (yellow dwarf) took unfair advantage<br />
of an enemy, who, he knew, could not answer him,<br />
and bestowed upon JMichaud the sobriquet of " G-rand Master<br />
of the Order of the Extinguishers," which stuck to him with<br />
the burlike pertinacity of sobriquets, for many years after<br />
the second restoration of the Bourbons. He welcomed this<br />
last event by the publication of a pamphlet entitled " The<br />
History of the Eifteen Weeks, or the Last Eeign of Buona-<br />
parte," which had a great sale, twenty-seven editions of it<br />
appearing in a very short period. Having, since his success<br />
as an author, separated from his brother as a bookseller, and<br />
sold his share in the printing office, he, after 1815, gave<br />
himself -up to the prosecution of his great work on the crusades,<br />
and even parted with his portion of " La Biographie<br />
Universelle." His love of politics led him, at this time, to<br />
get returned as deputy for the department of the Ain :<br />
but<br />
alas ! he found it a very different thing for a man with a<br />
weak voice, and totally " unaccustomed to public speaking,"<br />
to sit and write uncontrolled and imobserved in his closet,<br />
and to be subject to the "retort courteous" of an enemy<br />
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