Show HOW LAVALETTE WAS SAVED english officer preserved life of one time foe on the escape ot napoleon from elba one of the generals who rejoined him was the brave gen lavalette a 0 great distinction when napoleon was defeated gen lava lette was taken prisoner and barbar bously sentenced to death as a traitor and as a traitor be would have been executed were it not tor capt hely hutchinson and two other english sol alers llers one of them being gen allson gen lavalette was in prison on the night before the morning appointed or the execution when be was visited by his wife daughter and a maid after an affecting interview in the cell the generals wife apparently was led forth by her maid in an al most fainting condition but it was really lavalette himself who bad don ned his wife s clothes he was taken hurriedly to the quarters of hely hutchinson and his chivalrous con and having been dressed in the uniform of an english officer he drove boldly out of pans and was speedily epe edily across th frontier |