He is severely wounded by Napoleon, and only saved by the assistance of Lord Hill.

In the meantime the Duke makes a tremendous carnage among the French.

He encounters General Duhesme and vanquishes him, but spares his life.

He kills Toubert, who kept the gaming-house in the Palais Royal, and Maronet, who loved to spend whole nights in drinking champagne.

Clerval, who had been hooted from the stage, and had then become a captain in the Imperial Guard, wished that he had still continued to face the more harmless enmity of the Parisian pit.