The descriptions of the Bastille have been gathered by me from the accounts of the spy, Constantin de Renneville, who was a prisoner for eleven years, and who, when released, went to London, and was there assassinated by an unknown hand; of the adventurer, Jean Louis Carra, who, after writing odes of praise upon the fall of the Bastille, perished at the hands of the republicans; of the Duc de Richelieu, who, when a very old man of ninety, could not resist visiting the place where he had been three times confined when a very young one; and of Voltaire, who had had considerable experience of its hospitality, having been sent there twice; and of many other authors of the past and present. NOTE E. _Arrest of Charles Edward_. The arrest of Charles Edward took place under precisely similar circumstances to those which I have described, with one exception, namely, that it was carried out on his quitting the opera house in the Palais Royal instead of outside his own house on the Quai des Théatins, and it was from behind the _kitchen_ of the Palais Royal that he was taken away in a hired cab. I have transposed the arrest to the latter spot to suit the requirements of the story. The Duc de Biron took part in it, against his will, in the capacity of colonel-in-chief of the guards. He was the least celebrated of the many Ducs de Biron, of whom a French writer said "all were celebrated and some notorious." FOOTNOTES [Footnote 1: "_Tandem triumphans_" was the motto emblazoned on Charles Edward's banner during the march into England. "_Nunquam triumphans_" was afterwards a password between Jacobites.] [Footnote 2: The remarkable name of one of the royal yachts of George II.] [Footnote 3: Inaugurated 1724.] [Footnote 4: At this period most of the houses in Kensington-square had large gardens at the back. Those on the west side, where I Fordingbridge's is supposed to be situated, covered what known as Scarsdale-place.] [Footnote 5: A tipstaff, or executor of warrants for the Government.] [Footnote 6: Governor of the Bastille from 1718 to 1749, and father of the last governor of that prison, Le Marquis Bernard Réné Jourdan de Launey, who was brutally murdered by the populace on the fall of the Bastille in 1789.] [Footnote 7: Latude's successful escape was made some years after the date of this narrative--viz., in 1750.] [Footnote 8: As happened the next year, by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.] [Footnote 9: The ballets in which the French kings, and Louis XIV in particular, frequently danced, were more in the style of a minuet than anything else. There is a picture in the Luxembourg of one being performed, with Louis taking part in it and representing _Le Printemps_.] [Footnote 10: A derisive name sometimes applied to the Bastille, especially by the lower classes in Paris.] THE END. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Denounced, by John Bloundelle-Burton