16/51 Upon this, our chiefs left us, and we all got away as best we could." "After the capitulation of the Duc d'Angouleme I found myself," deposes Paul Lambert, lace-maker of Nimes, "in one of several detachments under the orders of Commandant Magne and General Vogue. In the middle of a forest near a village, the name of which I do not know, M.de Vogue and the other officer, told us we might go home. The flag was folded up, and M.Magne put it in his pocket. We asked our chiefs what we were to do with our arms. M.de Vogue told us that we had better keep them, as we should need them before very long; and in any case it would be well to have them with us on the road, lest anything should happen to us." The three depositions are too much alike to leave room for any doubt. |