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Napoleon and His Marshals - Vol. I
Chapter VII
MARSHAL MONCEY
His Early Life— Operations in Spain—
The Presentation by Napoleon of his Son to him and the National Guard—
His noble Efforts in behalf of Ney— Reception of Napoleon's Body when brought
from St. Helena.
THERE can be no greater
contrast than that between Moncey and most of Napoleon's other marshals.
The moral qualities in him predominated over the mental, and while he did
everything right he did nothing brilliant. Notwithstanding the injustice
of it, the world will insist on judging every man by the same standard
without regard to the natural temperament or mental constitution. For the
quiet, upright, and charitable life a man naturally of a mild spirit and
equable feelings leads, he receives all the praise of one who has combated
his fierce propensities and by a long process of self-discipline chastened
his spirit and corrected his actions. The world seems to forget he is acting
out his natural tendencies, and to be rash, positive, and encroaching would
require a painful effort. Being without force of will and the concentration
of purpose which loves action and seeks great accomplishments, he is not
at home in the violence of political revolutions or the fierce tumult of
battle. In following the peaceful and even path he treads, he is consulting
his own tastes and inclinations, yet men point to him as a model. He may
be a good man, and worthy of all admiration; yet were the world filled
with such it would stagnate. Such men never make reformers—conceive and
execute vast plans, or push the race onward toward its final goal.
Neither will men average character. They will not
allow for the peculiar nature with which one is endowed, nor let his good
and bad qualities balance each other. A man of strong and vivid imagination
and impetuous spirit may not only exhibit more principle, show more self-control,
and acquire greater virtue in disciplining himself to the point from which
errors are still committed, than he who is without spot or blame, out spot
or blame,—but his actions if mingled up would take a higher level. One
error "covers a multitude" of virtues in this world.
Moncey and Murat were as different as light and
darkness; neither one could have been the other by any possible training.
The career of the former was like a stream flowing through valleys, steady
and equable; that of the latter like a rushing wave, now breaking in grandeur
on the shore, and now retiring out of sight into the deep. The former cultivates
our sentiments, the latter kindles our imagination and awakens our emotions.
Murat was a chivalric knight, Moncey an honest man. One went down like
a gallant ship at sea; the other slowly wasted away in the peaceful port
where he sought shelter and repose. But, if Moncey was not a brilliant
man, he exhibited in the early part of his career the qualities of a good
general, and received the reward of his bravery and success in being made
Duke of Cornegliano and Marshal of the Empire.
Rose-Adrien de Moncey was born at Bezançon,
in July, 1754. His father was lawyer of the town parliament, and designed
to fit his son for his own peaceful pursuits. But young Adrian, seized
with a love for military life so common to youth, enlisted when but fifteen
years old in the infantry. His father, thinking that the rigors of a camp
life would soon disgust him, let him remain six months, and then procured
his discharge. He, however, soon ran away, and enlisted in another regiment
of infantry. His father, seeing the force of his inclinations, left him
to pursue his own course, and he served as grenadier for three years. Having
been engaged in no battle in that time, and receiving no promotion, he
concluded to abandon his musket and return home, where he commenced the
study of law. But a garrison being in town, it awakened all his old habits
and tastes, and drew him away from his studies. As a natural result, he
again became a soldier, and in about four years reached the rank of sub-lieutenant
of dragoons. The Revolution breaking out, a new life opened to him, and
he entered at once on his successful career. Drafted into a battalion of
light-infantry, he went up rapidly to captain, chief of battalion, and
general of division. During the first campaigns of the Republic he distinguished
himself as a brave and upright officer.
In 1794 he was sent to the Western Pyrenees to defend
the frontiers of France against the invasions of Spain. After the success
of Dugomier in the East, it was resolved to invade Spain in turn by Catalonia
and Navarre. The army advanced in three columns through three different
passes—Moncey commanded the third. He forced the passage appointed to him,
took St. Sebastian, and on the next day fired the gates of Tolosa. Constant
succeeses followed the army, which filled the Convention with joy. The
representative Garrau, after enumerating the extraordinary victories that
had been gained, closed with saying, "The soldiers of this army are not
men—they are either demons or gods." The whole state of French affairs
was changed in that quarter, and as it was attributed chiefly to the energy
and skill of Moncey, he was nominated commander-in-chief. Hearing of his
nomination, he wrote to the Convention not to ratify it, as he did not
deem himself qualified for the station. But the Convention paid no heed
to his remonstrance, and he was proclaimed "Commander-in-chief of the Army
of Spain." He soon showed that the government had not misplaced its confidence;
for, pursuing his success, he beat the Spaniards at Lecumberry and Villa
Nova,—passed the Deva, overcame the enemy at Villa Real and Mont Dragon—took
Bilboa,—routed the enemy at Vittoria, and overrun all Biscay. The court
at Madrid, alarmed at the rapid advance of the republican general, offered
terms of peace, which were accepted, and the victorious Moncey left the
field of his fame, and returned to France. In 1796 he was sent to command
the army on the side of Brest. Having used all his endeavor to heal the
divisions in Vendée, he was appointed at the end of the year to
command the first military division at Bayonne. Here he remained idle,
while the French army was filling the world with its deeds, along the Nile
and around the Pyramids, and winning laurels in the Alps and by the Rhine.
When Bonaparte was appointed First Consul, Moncey,
then at Paris, received the command of the fifteenth military division
at Lyons. Soon after, when the former commenced operations in Italy, the
latter was despatched thither with fifteen thousand men. While the former
was descending from the heights of St. Bernard, the latter was leading
his army of fifteen thousand men over the pass of St. Gothard. His historians
have made him present at the battle of Marengo, but on the day of that
great victory to the French he was guarding the Tessino, awaiting orders
from Bonaparte.
In 1801 he was made chief inspector of the gens
d'armerie, and three years after received his marshal's baton. Grand
officer of the Legion of Honor, President of the Electoral College of his
own department, and Duke of Cornegliano, followed in rapid succession.
In 1808, when Napoleon invaded Spain, Moncey was
sent into Valencia at the head of ten thousand men to watch the country
between the Lower Ebro and Carthagena, and if he thought advisable to attack
Valencia itself. Hearing at Cuenea that an army of thirty thousand men
was gathering to attack him, and that the insurrection in the province
was rapidly increasing, he resolved to march on the city of Valencia. He
immelately, according to his instructions, sent a despatch to General Chabran,
whom he supposed to be at Tortosa, to march also toward the city, and effect
a junction with his army there on the 27th or 28th of the month. In the
mean time he moved forward with his small army toward the place.
Forcing the river Cabriel, he continued his march
without serious interruption and took up his position at Otriel. But hearing
that the patriots to the number of twelve thousand were intrenching themselves
at Cabrillas on his left he turned aside to attack them. As he came up
to them his experienced eye saw immediately the advantageous position they
had taken. Their center was behind a deep, narrow defile, lined with precipitous
rocks, on which were gathered multitudes of armed peasantry, while the
two wings stretched along the side of a steep and rocky mountain. Opening
his artillery on the center, and keeping his cavalry hovering about the
defile in order to draw off the attention of the enemy, he despatched General
Harispe to turn their flank. The plan was successful, and the enemy was
routed at all points. Continuing his march he arrived before Valencia on
the 27th, but no General Chabran was there, nor could he get any tidings
of him. He, however, disposed his forces to the best advantage, opened
his artillery, and summoned the city to surrender. But a walled town, filled
with eighty thousand inhabitants and surrounded by trenches flooded by
water, so that no approach could be made except through the gates, was
not likely to yield to an army of ten thousand men without a struggle.
Moncey then undertook to carry it by assault—a foolish attempt, unless,
as is reported, a smuggler had promised to betray the place.
The assault was unsuccessful; the people were in
arms; and a friar traversing the streets, with a cross in one hand and
a sword in the other, roused them by his fiery words to the highest pitch
of enthusiasm. In the mean time, no intelligence having been received of
Chabran, and the ammunition being nearly expended, and a thousand wounded
men encumbering his troops, he concluded to raise the siege, and fell back
to Quarte. Hearing at this place that the Spanish general was on the march
for Almanza to intercept the communication of the French army, he resolved
to advance and attack him before he could leave the kingdom of Murcia,
from which lie was hastening. In carrying out this plan Moncey, though
now fifty-four years of age, exhibited a vigor of resolution and rapidity
of movement that would have honored the youngest general in the army.
Serbelloni was impeded in his march by the sudden
appearance of the French marshal before him, and hastily took position
behind the river Xucar.
Moncey, however, forced the passage, and Serbelloni
retired to some heights that commanded the high road to Almanza, designing
to take possession of the defiles before the town, and there dispute the
entrance with the enemy. But Moncey's rapidity of movement again defeated
him; for, marching all night, he drew up his army in the principal gorge
and saluted the Spaniards as they approached in the morning with a discharge
of artillery. Having dispersed them, he entered the town in triumph.
The whole province soon after arising in arms, his
position became perilous, and Caulincourt was sent to reinforce him. Thus
strengthened, he began to march back on Valencia. But Savary, entrusted
with the chief command for a short time in this department, arrested his
movements with so little ceremony that he was offended, and returned to
Madrid. Soon after he was ordered to besiege Saragossa. Arriving before
the city, he summoned the inhabitants to surrender, and prevent the slaughter
that must ensue if the siege was carried on. In a few days, however, he
was superseded by Junot.
Moncey's operations were not very brilliant, and
could not well be with so small a force; still he killed and wounded, in
the several battles he fought, a number equal to his entire army, showing
that he was anything but an inactive and inefficient leader. Napier, in
speaking of his operations in Valencia, gives him great credit, and says:
"Marshal Moncey, whose whole force was at first only eight thousand French,
and never exceeded ten thousand men, continued marching and fighting without
cessation for a month, during which period he forced two of the strongest
mountain passes in the world—crossed several large and difficult rivers—carried
the war into the very streets of Valencia, and, being disappointed of assistance
from Catalonia, extricated his division from a difficult situation, after
having defeated his opponents in five actions, killed and wounded a number
of them equal in amount to the whole of his own force, and made a circuit
of three hundred miles through a hostile and populous country without having
sustained any serious loss, without any desertion from the Spanish battalions
incorporated with his own, and, what was of more importance, having those
battalions much increased by desertions from the enemy." In another place
he says, "Moncey, though an old man, was vigorous, active, and decided."
"Recalled to Paris by Napoleon, he was sent into
Flanders to repel the English, who were threatening a descent upon Antwerp.
The failure of that expedition leaving him without active employment, he
was appointed to the command of the army of reserve in the North. When
Napoleon projected his fatal Russian campaign, Moncey, then an old man,
threw in his strenuous remonstrance against it. After its disastrous termination,
he did but little till the allies invaded France. When Napoleon, in that
crisis of his life, roused himself to meet the storm that was darkening
over his throne, he saw, with his far-reaching glance, that the enemy might
approach to Paris; and among his last dispositions was the reorganization
of the National Guard, over which he placed the veteran Moncey.
On the Monday previous to his setting out for the
army, to make his last stand for his empire, he assembled the officers
of the National Guard in the Palace of the Tuileries, and there, in solemn
pomp, committed his son to their charge. The Empress advanced first into
the apartment, followed by Madame Montesquieu carrying the infant king—already
proclaimed King of Rome. The innocent child, but three years old, was dressed
in the uniform of the National Guard, and his blue eyes sparkled with delight
at the gay ornaments that now for the first time adorned his vestments,
while his golden locks clustered in ringlets about his neck. Taking him
by the hand, Napoleon stepped into the midst of the circle of officers,
and thus addressed them: "Gentlemen, I am now to set out for the army,
and I entrust to you that which I hold dearest in the world—my wife and
son. Let there be no political dissensions; let the respect for property,
regard for order, and, above all, the love of France, fill every bosom.
I do not conceal from you that in the struggle that is to come the enemy
may approach on Paris, but a few days will end the affair. Before they
arrive I will be on their flanks and rear, and annihilate those who dare
violate our country." After he had closed his address, a silence, like
that of the grave, succeeded, and he took the child in his arms and presented
him to the aged Moncey. The old man, who had stood so many battle shocks
unmoved, was now unnerved; and the quivering lip and swimming eye told
of the deep emotions that mastered him, as he received the sacred trust.
"This," said Napoleon, "is your future sovereign." He then presented
the child to the other officers, and, as with sad and serious countenance
he walked uncovered through their ranks, sudden shouts of enthusiasm filled
the appartments; [sic] amid the cries of "Vive ‘Empereur, " and
"Vive le Roi de Rome," tears burst from eyes unaccustomed to weep.
On Tuesday morning, at three o'clock, Napoleon left
his palace for the army, never to see his wife and son again.
At length the allied armies were approaching to
Paris; and soon the heights around the city were covered with their victorious
legions. But previous to this the Empress and her son, by order of Napoleon,
had left Paris. Still the National Guard combated bravely, and Marshal
Moncey, firm and steadfast to the end, struggled on after all hope was
gone, and remonstrated against submission until Marmont's defection ruined
everything. He then resigned his command to the Duke of Montmorency, and,
faithful to the last, retired with a few troops to Fontainebleau, to Napoleon.
After the abdication of the Emperor he gave in his adhesion to the new
government and was confirmed in his office of Inspector-General of the
Horse of the King's household, and in June following made Chevalier of
Saint Louis, and two days after Peer of France.
When the news of Napoleon's landing reached Paris
he addressed the gens d'armes, reminding them of the oath they had
taken to be faithful to the King. He himself never swerved from his new
allegiance; and after the second overthrow of Napoleon at Waterloo was
appointed, as the oldest of the marshals, to preside at the trial of Ney.
But the firm and upright old soldier not only refused to sit in the Council
of War, but drew up an able and bold remonstrance to the King against the
act. This letter came to light a few years after, and was unpublished in
this country, and though Moncey, then in favor, saw fit to deny it authenticity,
it was in terms that rather confirmed than weakened the common belief of
its authorship. The published letter not corresponding in every particular
with the written one, allowed him to disavow it for the sake of the King,
who did not wish to take the obloquy of having treated so noble an appeal
with disregard. He says, "Placed in the cruel alternative to disobey your
Majesty or violate my conscience, I am forced to explain myself to your
Majesty. I do not enter into the question of the guilt or innocence of
Marshal Ney; your justice, and the equity of his judges, must answer for
that to posterity, which weighs in the same balance kings and subjects."
After speaking of the general peace and security which were established,
and that there was no cause for this highhanded act of cruelty, except
that the allies wished to take vengeance on one whose very name reminded
them of their humiliation, he begs the King to refuse his sanction to it.
As for himself, he says, in true nobility of spirit: "My life, my fortune,
all that I hold most dear, belong to my King and my country ; but my
honor is my own; and no power can rob me of it. What, shall I pronounce
upon the fate of Marshal Ney! Permit me, Sire, to ask your Majesty, where
were these accusers when Ney was marching over the field of battle? Ah!
if Russia and the allies are not able to pardon the victor of Borodino,
can France forget the hero of Beresina? Shall I send to death one to whom
France owes her life—her families, their children, their husband, and parents?
Reflect, Sire; it is, perhaps, the last time that truth shall come near
your throne.
"It is very dangerous, very impolitic to push the
brave to despair. Ah, if the unhappy Ney had accomplished at Waterloo what
he had so often done before, perhaps he would not have been drawn before
a military commission. Perhaps those who to-day demand his death would
have implored his protection. . . . "Nobly said, brave Moncey, in this
trying hour of France, when each was seeking to preserve his own head or
fortune. This single act should make him immortal. Braving the hatred of
the King and the vengeance of the allies, he on, whose life was no istain,
here interposes himself between an old companion in arms and death. His
place, his fortune, and his liberty he regarded light as air when put in
the balance with his honor and with justice. To any but a Bourbon's heart
this appeal would not have been in vain, and that unhappy race would have
been saved another stain on its character, and England a dishonor which
she never can wipe from her history.
This bold refusal of the oldest marshal to be president
of the council of war to try Ney, accompanied with such an noble appeal
to the king and deep condemnation of the allies, awakened, as was to be
expected, the deepest indignation. The only reply to it was a royal order
depriving him of his rank as marshal and condemning him without trial to
three months' imprisonment. This order was countersigned by Marshal St.
Cyr, to his everlasting disgrace. He had better died on the field of his
fame, or been shot like Ney by kingly murderers, than put his signature
to such a paper. If all the marshals had entered their solemn protest against
the act, as Moncey did, it is doubtful whether Ney would have been slain.
The disgrace and imprisonment of the old marshal,
without even the farce of a trial, was in perfect keeping with the despotic
injustice that had beforehand resolved on Ney's death. But what a pitiful
exhibition of kingly violence was this shutting up an old man over sixty
years of age, whose head was whitened in the storm of battle, and on whose
name was no stain or even reproach, for daring in the nobleness of his
nature to refuse to condemn an old companion in arms, by whose side he
had fought so long and bravely for France and for freedom.
When power departed from Napoleon, most of his marshals,
in their eagerness to save their hard-earned honors and rank and fortune,
showed themselves wanting in some of the noblest qualities of man. But
Moncey, unmoved by all his reverses, still kept his honor bright and his
integrity unshaken; and the night that he laid his gray hairs on his prisoner's
pillow witnessed a nobler deed than the day that looked on his most victorious
battle-field.
Louis XVIII. was not long in perceiving the bad
policy of this petty tyranny; and when the three months' imprisonment was
ended, he reinstated him in his rank, and in 1820 named him commandant
of the 9th military division, and soon after chevalier of the order of
Saint Esprit.
In the inglorious Spanish war of 1823, Moncey, then
nearly seventy years of age, was appointed over the fourth corps. He marched
into Spain, fought several battles, and finally sat down in regular siege
before Barcelona. The capitulation of this city after some severe fighting
ended the war; and Moncey returned to France and received the grand cross
of Saint Louis and a seat in the Chamber of Peers.
In the late Revolution of 1830 Moncey took no part.
He had long foreseen the storm which Charles X, by determination to keep
up the Bourbon reputation for folly, was gathering over his head, and saw
without regret the overthrow of his thtone. His age and sorrow for the
death of his only son, who in leaping a ditch in a hunting excursion accidentally
discharged his gun and killed himself, had driven him from public life.
But when the Bourbon throne went down again he replaced with joy his old
cockade of 1792.
After the death of Marshal Jourdan in 1834 he was
appointed governor of the Invalides. Nothing could be more touching than
the sight of this old veteran, now eighty years of age, among the mutilated
and decrepit soldiers of Napoleon. Sustained by two servants, he would
drag himself from hall to hall amid the blessings of those old warriors,
many of whom had seen him, in the pride of manly strength and courage,
lead his columns into battle. Nearly two hundred officers, and more than
three thousand men, the wreck of the grand army, were assembled here and
the oldest marshal of the empire placed at their head. How striking the
contrast which Moncey and those few thousand men in their faded regimentals
presented to the magnificent army which Napoleon had led so often to victory.
From the Pyramids, from Lodi, Arcola, Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram,
and Borodino, where the eye rests on mighty armies moving to battle and
to victory, amid the unrolling of standards and pealing of trumpets, the
glance returns to the bowed form and gray hairs and trembling voice of
Moncey, as he moves on the shoulders of his attendants through the ranks
of these few aged soldiers, who have come maimed from almost every battle-field
of Europe to die in the bosom of France.
Time had taken what the sword left. Napoleon, the
spell-word which had startled Europe, was now spoken in mournful accents,
and the fields in which they had seen him triumph were but as dim remembrances.
On a far distant isle that mighty spirit had sunk to rest, and the star
that had illuminated a hemisphere had left the heaves forever. What ravages
time makes! Who would have thought as he gazed on the aged Moncey, borne
carefully along, his feeble voice saluting his old companions in arms,
that fire had ever flashed from that eye, and amid the uproar of cannon
and shock of cavalry he had carried death through the ranks of the enemy,
and that those bowed and limping soldiers had shouted on the fierce-fought
fields of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Wagram, or sent up their warcry from
the foot of the Pyramids?
The old soldiers loved to see the form of Moncey
in their midst, and greeted him wherever he went with words of allection
and respect. Indeed, all who knew him loved him, for his private life was
as spotless as his military career. He was the friend of humanity, the
patron of education, and the firm supporter of every benevolent scheme.
Upright and kind, he was ever true to himself and merciful to his enemies.
No acts of cruelty marred his conquests, and even his captives learned
to love him. His face indicated the humane and generous character he exhibited.
He was not a brilliant man, but, as Napoleon once said, "he was an honest
man." He was not wanting in intellectual qualities, but they predominated
too much over his impulsive ones to render him capable of those great and
chivalrous actions which characterized so many of Napoleon's generals.
Those sudden inspirations which so often visit genius in the hour of danger
or excitement he was an utter stranger to. He did all things well and preserved
through a long career the respect and confidence of the Emperor; for though
he never flattered him in power, he never betrayed him in misfortune. His
natural character was better suited to the military tactics of Wellington
than Napoleon; who—decided, impetuous, and rapid himself—wished to have
around him men of similar character and temperament.
The closing up of Moncey's life presents perhaps
the most affecting scene in it. When the remains of Napoleon, a few years
ago, were brought from St. Helena, Moncey, though nearly ninety years of
age, was still governor of the Hotel des Invalides, and hence was appointed
to receive them in the name of those disabled veterans. All France was
agitated as the time drew near when the vessel was expected that bore back
the dead Emperor to her shores. The insulted hero had already slept too
long amid his foes, and when the vessel that was wafting him home swept
down on the coast of France the excitement could scarcely have been greater
had he been landing with sword in hand.
On the day of solemn procession in Paris the whole
city was abroad, and Napoleon in the height of his power never received
more distinguished honor than when dead he was borne through the capital
of his former empire. As the procession passed through the streets, the
beat of the muffled drum and the prolonged and mournful blast of the trumpet
as it rose and fell through the solemn requiem and all the signs of a nation's
woe filled every heart with the profoundest grief.
There, beside the coffin, walked the remnants of
the 0ld Guard, once the pride and strength of the Emperor and the terror
of Europe; and there, too, was his old war-horse, covered with the drapery
of mourning, on whose back he had galloped through the battle; and over
all drooped the banner of France, heavy with crape—all—all mourning in
silence for the mighty dead.
The church that was to receive the body was crowded
in every part of it, waiting its arrival, when the multitude was seen to
part in front, and an old man bowed with years, his white locks falling
over a whiter visage, and seemingly ready himself to be laid in the tomb,
was borne through the throng in a large arm-chair, and placed at the left
of the main altar beside the throne. Covered with decorations and honors
that contrasted strangely with his withered form and almost lifeless features,
he sat and listened to the heavy dirge that came sweeping through the church,
as if memory was trying in vain to recall the past. That was Marshal
Moncey, now nearly ninety years of age, brought hither to welcome his
old commander back to his few remaining soldiers. As the funeral train
slowly entered the court the thunder of cannon shook the solid edifice,
blending in their roar with the strains of martial music. They, too, seemed
conscious beings, and striving with their olden voices to awaken the chieftain
for whom they had swept so many battle-fields. But drum and trumpet tone
and the sound of cannon fell alike on the dull ear of the mighty sleeper.
His battles were all over, and his fierce spirit gone to a land where the
loud trumpet of war is never heard.
As the coffin approached, the old invalid soldiers
drew up on each side of the way, in their old uniform, to receive it. The
spectacle moved the stoutest heart. The last time these brave men had seen
their Emperor was on the field of battle, and now, after long years, his
coffin approached their midst. The roar of cannon and the strains of martial
music, brought back the days of glory, and as their eyes met the pall that
covered the form of their beloved chief they fell on their knees in tears
and sobs and reached forth their hands in passionate sorrow. Overwhelmed
with grief, and with the emotions that memory had so suddenly wakened,
this was the only welcome they could give him. On swept the train till
it entered the church; and as the coffin passed through the door, heralded
by the Prince de Joinville with his drawn sword in his hand, the immense
throng involuntarily rose, and a murmur more expressive than words filled
the house. The King descended from his throne to meet it, and the aged
Moncey, who had hitherto sat immovable and dumb, the mere "phantom of a
soldier," suddenly struggled to rise. The soul awakened from its torpor,
and the dying veteran knew that Napoleon was before him. But his strength
failed him; with a feeble effort he sank back in his chair, while a flash
of emotion shot over his wan and wasted visage like a sunbeam, and his
eye kindled a moment in recollection. It was a striking spectacle—that
silent coffin and that old marshal together. Nothing could be more appropriate,
either, than this reception of Napoleon's body. The old soldiers, and the
oldest marshal of the Empire welcoming him back to a resting-place in their
midst, to sleep where they could keep guard and visit his tomb.
Soon after this event Moncey died, and, his only
son being dead, his title of Duke of Cornegliano was conferred on M. Duchene,
who married his only surviving daughter.
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