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Title: Bernadotte, the first phase, 1763-1799
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Barton, D. Plunket (Dunbar Plunket), Sir, 1853-1937
Subjects: Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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published a violent andill-conceived proclamation which was intended tointimidate, but only served to exasperate, theRevolutionary forces of Paris. They invaded Franceand were repulsed at Valmy, after Danton had flungat them his passionate declaration of foreign policy : II nous faut de Paudace, et encore de laudace,et toujours de Paudace. Meanwhile, the stormingof the Tuileries, the suspension of the King, theimprisonment of the Royal Family, and the horrorsof the September Massacres, marked the downfall ofthe Monarchy and the enthronement of Anarchy. Bernadotte had no influence upon, or part in, thepolitical events of 1792. While they were being en-acted in Paris, he was a lieutenant marching withhis regiment from Brittany to the Rhine. He is freefrom responsibility for events, which he did not evenwitness, as Bonaparte did, and could, no more thanBonaparte, prevent or mitigate. a Sorel, ii. 33. CCL - o z < CDCD CH Q£ <u V- uj S_ < o (XI UJ en •xi -z. K 1 u
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CHAPTER IX General Custines First Campaign a SEPTEMBER I 792-FEBRUARY I 793 Le General Moustache.—Custines nickname in the army. Bernadotte now became a subaltern officer in thearmy of General Custine, whose remarkable per-sonality deserves more than a mere passing reference/General Count Adam-Philippe de Custine deSarrack—such was his full nomenclature—was anaristocrat, who had, under the old regime, enjoyed tothe full the peculiar rights of the privileged class towhich he belonged. The pace of his advancement maybe contrasted with that of a bourgeois soldier likeBernadotte. He obtained a lieutenants commissionat the tender age of seven, and received his baptismof fire at the age of eight. At the age of twenty-threehe stepped into the command of a regiment ofdragoons, which was called, after their youthfulcommander, the Custine Dragoons. He served withdistinction in the American War of Independence,and was fond of boasting that he had fought in twohemispheres, under Maurice de

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