Where the Red Volleys Poured (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Where the Red Volleys Poured IN July, 1849, at the time he ¿ed to Switzerland with the beaten army of Baden, Paul Didier was still little more than a boy, having passed his seventeenth birthday only in the preceding September. He was an attractive youth, of graceful figure, with blue eyes and fair hair. Judged by the name, he might have passed for either Ger man or French, the Didiers were common in both Ger many and France. Paul, however, first saw the light in Heidelberg, where his father was a professor in the uni versity. His mother was a woman of rank, and had married the humble teacher against the bitter protests of her aristocratic but equally poor family. Frau Didier was the daughter of Baron von Rochlitz, formerly major in a Baden infantry regiment, who, at the time of his daughter's marriage, had already te tired from active service, and was living on his slender pension and the rents of a small estate in the Odenwald. [baron von Rochlitz never forgave his daughter her mésalliance, and when she died, which event occurred when her child was three years old, tried by every art known to his diplomatic nature to induce the boy's father to surrender the infant to his care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.