You told me his advanced guard was only twelve miles away, at La Roche-Bernard; I knew that also.

But a thing you may not know is that this advanced guard is not commanded by a soldier like you and me, but by citizen Thomas Milliere, Commissioner of the Executive authorities.
Another thing of which you may perhaps be ignorant is that citizen Thomas Milliere does not fight like us with cannon, guns, bayonets, pistols and swords, but with an instrument invented by your Republican philanthropists, called the guillotine." "It is impossible, sir," cried Roland, "that under the First Consul any one can make that kind of war." "Ah! let us understand each other, colonel.

I don't say that the First Consul makes it; I say it is made in his name." "And who is the scoundrel that abuses the authority given him, to make war with a staff of executioners ?" "I have told you his name; he is called Thomas Milliere.

Question whom you please, colonel, and throughout all Vendee and Brittany you'll hear but one voice on that man.

From the day of the rising in Vendee and Brittany, now six years ago, Milliere has been, always and everywhere, the most active agent of the Terror.