Cadoudal

“Yes, First Consul, I thought you might be interested to know that the Royalist agent Cadoudal is back in Paris—plotting your death yet again.”

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

Cadoudal, Georges: Royalist agent, convicted of conspiracy.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

“The meeting with Citoyen Cadoudal did not go well?”

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

Cadoudal always met him at the door, so apparently he was a person of consequence.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

According to my informants, Georges Cadoudal was hoisted by ship cable up a 250- foot cliff close to Dieppe on the fourth of Fructidor— August twenty-first.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

As Cadoudal began to run, the wounded officer—with the help of two brave citizens, I should add—managed to grab him and hit him over the head.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

“Georges Cadoudal,” Fouché said with a slow smug smile.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

Cadoudal is in Paris, along with a number of other assassins, as it turns out.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

Cadoudal is the leader of the rebel faction—the faction intent on putting a Bourbon king back on the throne.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001

They each declared that every ten or twelve days a gentleman came to call on Cadoudal—a man of middle height, corpulent and balding.

The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001