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Your visit to General Hédouville proves it . '' `` You know that General Hédouville is no longer in command at Nantes . General Brune has taken his place . '' `` You may even say that General Brune commands at La Roche-Bernard , for a thousand Republican soldiers entered that town to-night about six o'clock , bringing with them a guillotine and the citizen commissioner-general Thomas Millière . Having the instrument , it was necessary to have the executioner . '' `` Then you say , general , that I came to see the Abbé Bernier ? '' `` Yes ; the Abbé Bernier had offered his mediation .