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Madame replied heroically, as a Cornelia would have done....

From 12 to 15,000 peasants poured down from the mountains of Ajaccio; our house was pillaged and burnt, our vines destroyed, and our flocks.

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In other respects, this woman, from whom it would have been so difficult to extract five francs, would have given up everything to secure my return from Elba, and after Waterloo she offered me all she possessed to restore my affairs." (" Memorial," May 29, 1816, and "Memoires d'Antonomarchi," Nov.