CHAPTER IV

CAPTIVITY

The Rupture--Detentions--Flights and Narrow Escapes--Life at Verdun--Extortion--Napoleon’s Rigour--M.P.’s--The _Argus_--Escapes and Recaptures--Diplomatists --Liberations--Indulgences--Women and Children--Captures in War--Rumbold--Foreign Visitors--British Travellers--Deaths--The Last Stage--French Leave--Unpaid Debts, 174