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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Regicide: Edited From the Original Mss of Sergent Marceau, Member of the Convention, and Administrator of Police in the French Revolution
This fierce jailor, who proved to be no other than their distinguished and eccentric countryman, Lord Brougham, had heard that Mr. And Mrs. Davenport were expected at the hotel at Cannes, and deter mined to substitute his chateau for that hostelry, to the great satisfaction of every one except the good landlord, who would willingly have dispensed with such a formidable rival.
The travellers were treated with the utmost kind ness by their despotic host, and were not allowed to move until the mischief caused by the inundations had been entirely repaired.
Among other visitors at the chateau they met M. Carnot, son of the celebrated Director (and father of the President of the French Republic), and learned from him that sergent-marceau, a leading man in the French Revolution, was living at Nice in the full possession of his health and faculties at past ninety years of age.
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