A GOOD STORY.
A good story about general-making is that which relates to the rise and fall of General Crevisier. This man, who was at the time nothing, having said in the presence of Gambetta that, if he was a general and anyone spoke to him abont surrendering, he would blow the traitor's brains out, Gambetta is said to have answered, " Then I make you a generai of division, and place you at the head of the army of Lyons." The new general started at once for his post and having met a sub-lieutenant who also used strong patriotic language, he at once made him a general of brigade. But before the end of a fortnight the friend turned false and started for Tours to Jiccuse his superior of treason —he was himself a living proof of it. But General Crevisier got wind of the matter, and had the general of brigade apprehended on the way, and sentenced him to fourteen days' arrest. He then started for Tours himself, and during his absence his prisoner broke his arrest, placed himself at the head of 2000 volunteers, and aided the Garibaldians to capture Autun. This at once made his fortune with the Tours Government, and poor General Crevisier was very ill received for coming to complain of a better man than himself.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 802, 15 April 1871, Page 3
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221A GOOD STORY. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 802, 15 April 1871, Page 3
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