Lavallette ran the post office under Napoleon and Napoleon said Lavallette was the most honest man he knew. Lavallete also describes first hand how secret societies clearly engineered the Reign of Terror and the French Revolution. Sound familiar?
Lavallette is locked up in the latter part of his account of his life by the terrified puppet leaders of France after the fall of Napoleon for the “crime” of operating the post office during the Hundred Days. His wife Emilie (Hortense’s cousin and Louis Bonaparte’s first love) busts him out of prison the night before they were going to execute him. This is an amazing story.
Emilie de Beauharnais Lavalette