The Diary of James Gallatin Secretary to Albert Gallatin
The Diary of James Gallatin Secretary to Albert Gallatin
James Gallatin
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As he was driving home in the Champs Elysees a shot was fired, but for- tunately missed him in fact, the bullet has not been found. Some malicious people say he had the shot fired himself. Naturally he has lots of enemies. So great a man as he is can brush such insinuations aside without g~'ving them a thought. He certainly is the most impor- tant personage in France at present, and if anything happened to him it would be a dire calamity. Indeed, it is very odd how persistently rude the Royal F...amily are to him. He never shows the slightest displeasure and is always dignified and courtesy itself. Father has the greatest admiration for him, and believes him to be a born diplomatist as well as a great soldier and leader of men. I have just heard that a man called Cantillon has been arrested. They say he is but a man of straw and that his arrest was made to appease the English and that he 104 DIARY OF JAMES GALLATIN [1817 will never be tried. The extraordinary thing is that, with the exception of the Due de Berri, not one of the Royal Family expressed the slightest sympathy or con- gratulated the Duke on his escape.
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