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will come to the surface; he is encountered under the Directory as
introducer of ambassadors.-Concerning one of the envoys of the
Directory to Switzerland, here is a note b~ Mallet-Dupan. ("Anecdotes
manuscrites," October, 1797.) " The Directonal ambassador, who has
come to exact from the Swiss the expulsion of the body-guard, is named
Mingot, of Belfort, a relation of Reubell's, former body-guard to M.
le Comte d'Artois.-He came to Zurich with a prostitute, a seamstress
of Zurich, established in Berne. He was living with her at the
expense of the Zurich government. Having invited the family of this
creature, that is to say a common horse-driver with his wife and some
other persons, to dinner, they drank and committed such excesses that
the driver's wife, who was big with child, gave birth to it in the
midst of the banquet. This creature gave Mingot a disease which has
laid him up at Basle."
[44] "The Revolution," II., 338, 348, 354.
[45] Martel, "Types R?volutionnaires," 136-144.- The Minister of War
appoints Henriot brigadier-general, July 3, 1793, and major-general on
the 19th of September, and says in a postscript, "Please communicate
your service record to me," unknown in the ministry because they were
of no account.
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