by the transport man he reached me and found me
living']

'My brother and my comrades were quickly round me; something was given
to the transport soldier who had taken my clothes, which he returned
very willingly, but as they were saturated with water and with blood,
Marshal Augereau had me wrapped in things belonging to himself. The
Emperor had given the marshal leave to go to Landsberg, but as his wound
forbad him to ride, his aides-de-camp had procured a sledge, on which
the body of a carriage had been placed. The marshal, who could not make
up his mind to leave me, had me fastened up beside him, for I was too
weak to sit upright.

'Before I was removed from the field of battle I had seen my poor
Lisette near me. The cold had caused the blood from her wound to clot,
and prevented the loss from being too great. The creature had got on to
her legs and was eating the straw which the soldiers had used the night
before for their bivouacs. My servant, who was very fond of Lisette, had
noticed her when he was helping to remove me, and cutting up into
bandages the shirt and hood of a dead soldier, he wrapped her leg with
them, and thus made her able to walk to Landsberg. The officer in
command of the small garrison there had had the forethought to get
quarters ready for the wounded, so the staff found places in a large and
good inn.

'In this way, instead of passing the night without help, stretched naked
on the snow, I lay on a good bed surrounded by the attention of my
brother, my comrades, and the kind Dr. Raymond. The doctor had been
obliged to cut off the boot which the transport man had not been able to
pull off, and which had become all the more difficult to remove owing to
the swelling of my foot. You will see presently that this very nearly
cost me my leg, and perhaps my life.

'We stayed thirty-six hours at Landsberg. This rest, and the good care
taken of me, restored me to the use of speech and senses, and when on
the second day after the battle Marshal Augereau started for Warsaw I
was able to be carried in the sledge. The journey lasted eight days.
Gradually I recovered strength, but as strength returned I began to feel
a sensation of icy cold in my right foot. At Warsaw I was lodged in the
house that had been taken for the marshal, which suited me the better
that I was not able to leave my bed. Yet the wound in my arm was doing
well, the extravasated blood was becoming absorbed, my skin was
recovering its