In a short note which his master of the stall,
Vigogne, handed to her, Bonaparte took leave of her, and made her a
present of every thing he left behind in Cairo, including the house
he occupied, with all its costly and luxurious furniture. [Footnote:
The departure of Bonaparte made Madame Foures comfortless, and she
now watched for an opportunity to hasten back to him in France.
Touched by her tears and prayers, Junot furnished her with an
opportunity, and Pauline reached Paris in November, 1799. But
Bonaparte would no longer see her; he now sacrificed the mistress to
the wife, as he had nearly sacrificed the wife to the mistress.
Pauline received orders to leave Paris immediately; at the same time
Bonaparte sent her a large sum of money, which he afterward
repeated.--See Saint Elsne, "Les Amours et Galanteries des Rois de
France," vol. ii., p. 320.]
General Kleber learned Bonaparte's departure, only through the
orders sent to him by the latter to assume the chief command of the
army; his troops learned his absence by the order of the day, in
which Bonaparte bade them farewell.
After four weeks of a long voyage against tempestuous and contrary
winds, the two frigates, upon one of which Bonaparte and Eugene and
his other followers had embarked, touched at Ajaccio.
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