Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 (of 6) 35/70 27, 1791 .-- Letter by M.de Marigny, commissary in the navy, at Brest, Nov. 28 .-- Letters by M.de la Jaille, etc .-- M. de la Jaille, sent to Brest to take command of the Dugay-Trouin, arrives there Nov.27.While at dinner, twenty persons enter the room, and announce to him, "in the name of many others," that his presence in Brest is causing trouble, that he must leave, and that "he will not be allowed to take command of a vessel." He replies, that he will leave the town, as soon as he has finished his dinner. Another deputation follows, more numerous than the first one, and insists on his leaving at once; and they act as his escort. He submits, is conducted to the city gates, and there the escort leaves him. |