Volume 3 (of 6) 44/68 Jourdan arose and declared that as far as he was concerned, he was ready to accept the position. He nominated himself, and asked the soldiers if they wanted him for general. A drunkard is likely to please other drunkards; they applauded him, and he was thus proclaimed."] [Footnote 2442: After a famous brigand in Dauphiny, named Mandrin .-- TR. French smuggler who, after 1750, was active over an enormous territory with the support of the population; hunted down by the army, caught, condemned to death to be broken alive on the wheel. |