This ship sank, as a matter of fact, with
part of her crew on board, imploring kid which there was not time to
give them. Some two hundred and fifty men had been taken off by the
English; the rest were lost. On the 9th of July Barrere published a
report setting forth "how the _Vengeur_, ... being entirely
disabled, ... refused to strike, though sinking; how the enemies fired
on her, but she returned their fire, shot aloft all her tricolor
streamers, shouted _Vive la Republique_, ... and so, in this mad
whirlwind of fire and shouting and invincible despair, went down into
the ocean depths; _Vive la Republique_ and a universal volley from
the upper deck being the last sounds she made." Cf. Carlyle, _Sinking
of the Vengeur_, and _French Revolution, Book_ XVIII, Chap. VI.
12 (footnote) LA GARDE MEURT, ETC.: "This phrase, attributed to
Cambronne, who was made prisoner at Waterloo, was vehemently denied by
him. It was invented by Rougemont, a prolific author of _mots_, two
days after the battle, in the _Independant_."--Fournier's _L'Esprit
dans l'Histoire_, trans. Bartlett, _Familiar Quotations_, p. 661.
13 25 BRUMMAGEM: Birmingham became early the chief place of manufacture
of cheap wares. Hence the name _Brummagem_, a vulgar pronunciation
of the name of the city, has become in England a common name for cheap,
tawdry jewelry.
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