When the cares of a partisan warfare do not darken it, its expression must surely be frank and joyous.

Beautiful blond hair frames it; great blue eyes enliven it; the head, of a shape peculiarly Breton, seems to show, if we believe in Gall's system, an exaggerated development of the organs of self-will.
And the man has two names.

That by which he is known to his soldiers, his familiar name, is Round-head; and his real name, received from brave and worthy parents, Georges Cadudal, or rather Cadoudal, tradition having changed the orthography of a name that is now historic.
Georges was the son of a farmer of the parish of Kerleano in the commune of Brech.

The story goes that this farmer was once a miller.

Georges had just received at the college of Vannes--distant only a few leagues from Brech--a good and solid education when the first appeals for a royalist insurrection were made in Vendee.