ion. One hospital, so well endowed that, in spite of the
_assignats_ and of dilapidation, it still had a revenue of 10,000
francs, was suppressed in 1810, and the building turned into a barrack,
despite the remonstrances of a worthy Mayor who still lives in the local
traditions of Eu. This functionary confronted Napoleon more creditably
than the Mayor of Folkestone confronted Queen Elizabeth. He received the
Emperor and began his harangue. Presently he stammered, hesitated, and
broke down. 'What!' said Napoleon, 'Mr. Mayor, a man like you!' 'Ah!
sire!' responded the quick-witted magistrate, 'in the presence of a man
like your Majesty, I cease to be a man like myself!' Another of the
foundations of the 'Grande Mademoiselle' still exists in the chief
hospital of Eu, now become the property of the town. The treasurer and
the physician of this hospital, both of them citizens of the highest
character, who have filled their respective posts for years, are
outspoken Royalists. At the elections of last year they voted as usual
with their own party. When the elections were over, the Prefect of the
Seine Inferieure requested the Municipal Council of Eu to remove both of
them. This the Councillors, though Republicans, declined to do.
Whereupon the Prefect removed them by a decree of his own!

The Chateau d'Eu came into the possession of Louis Philippe through his
mother, who was the daughter of the Duc de Penthievre, and of whose
admirable character and exemplary patience with her impossible husband
Philippe Egalite, Gouverneur Morris paints so lively a picture. The Duke
was so much beloved at Eu, where he habitually lived, that no personal
harm came to him during the first years of the Revolution. He died at
Vernon, on the eve of the Terror, and so was spared the pain of
witnessing the excesses perpetrated at Eu as elsewhere, not only during
that period but under the Directory. An accomplished resident of Eu
showed me a decree of the Directory, issued in 1798, and ordering the
people to meet on January 21: 'the anniversary of the just punishment of
the last French King, and swear hatred to the Monarchy!' 'What has come
of all that fury and folly?' he said. 'For years since then the people
of Eu have not only "sworn," but shown, genuine affection and respect to
two French Kings, Louis XVIII. and Louis Philippe. They didn't care much
about Charles X., but they were contented under his reign. Eu owes the
restoration of our noble chur