ouche notre
honneur grandement." This is the most ancient royal autograph in the
collection. Charles calls him Bertran de Caclin. The Constable, in a deed
of gift of the Chateau of Cachant to the Duke of Anjou, signs "Bertrain."

A school for deaf and dumb occupies the Chartreuse, directed by the Soeurs
de la Sagesse. We were shown round by a deaf and dumb guide, who made us
write on his slate what we could not explain on our fingers, and he also
wrote his reply. He showed us a series of paintings, copies of Le Soeur's
Life of St. Bruno in the Louvre, which are said to have been executed by
the monks of the Chartreuse. Attached to the church is a sepulchral chapel
containing the bones of the victims of the unfortunate descent on
Quiberon, when the immense armament of French royalists who were landed in
British ships, perished. They were commanded by d'Hervilly, an old officer
of the Constitutional Guard of Louis XVI., and he had for lieutenant Count
Charles de Sombreuil, whose sister had rendered the name illustrious by
her heroism in the Reign of Terror. They landed at Carnac, where Georges
Cadoudal and a band of Chouans awaited their arrival. Hoche, at the head
of a republican army, hastened to meet them. Every thing depended upon
their rapidity of action, but three days were lost in disputes about the
command among the emigrant generals. They took possession of the peninsula
of Quiberon, a strip of land about six miles long by three wide, united to
the mainland by a narrow tongue of sand a league in extent, called the
Falaise. Fort Penthievre, placed on the plateau of a steep rock, and
bathed on each side by the sea between the peninsula and the Falaise,
defends the approach by land. The emigrant army was protected by the
English fleet which lay in the bay of Quiberon, one of the safest and most
sheltered on the coast. The defence of Fort Penthievre was entrusted to
some republican soldiers taken from the English prisons. In a night
encounter d'Hervilly was killed. Hoche marched upon Fort Penthievre,
which was given up to him by the traitor soldiers. La Puisaye threw
himself into a boat and gained the English fleet. The emigrant army was
thrown into the greatest disorder; the "Bleus," as the republican soldiers
were called, pressed close upon them, and Sombreuil, driven to the water's
edge, and deserted by his troops, offered to capitulate, on the condition
that the lives should be spared of all save himself. "Yes," c