...t-Simon company went to table: it was of horse-shoe shape. The Princes and Princesses of the blood were placed at the right and at the left, according... ...ccurred since I left. During that time some adventures had happened to the Princesses, as the three illegitimate daughters of the King were called for... ... King prohib- ited very severely this familiarity. While at T rianon these Princesses took it into their heads to walk out at night and divert themsel... ...d, that he complained to the King, who made him many excuses (scolding the Princesses), but had great trouble to appease him. His anger lasted a long ... ...to seat yourself?” His napkin being unfolded, he saw all the duchesses and princesses still standing; and rising in his chair, he said to Madame de Sa... ...isfortune. T welve or fifteen years afterwards he was recognised among the Bavarian troops, in which he was serving in order to gain his bread and to ... ... taken in flank by the English, wavered in its turn. All the valour of the Bavarians, all the prodigies of the Elector, were unable to remedy the effe...

...m Bechelaren. Weapons and clothes a plenty they took with them through the Bavarian land. Seldom did men assail them on the highways for robbery’s sak... ...ince’s court as well, as they hurried forth to meet the strang- ers in the Bavarian land, where the Bishop Pilgrim (2) found fair Kriemhild. The knigh... ... guests. Now was the queen come to Efferding. (4) Enow there were from the Bavarian land who might perchance have done the guests much harm, had they ... ...o had great grief through Helca’s death. Kriemhild found still seven royal princesses there, through whom all Etzel’s land was graced. For the meiny t... ...in heaven to keep them well. Before the messengers were quite come through Bavarian land, the doughty Werbel sought out the good Bishop Pil- grim. Wha... ...h the name of Else. (7) His brother is hight Knight Gelfrat, a lord in the Bavarian land. ‘T will go hard with you, an’ ye will cross his land. Ye mus...

... be so “jolly green” as to take such a berth?It was only a gobemouche of a Bavarian that could ever have been induced to accept it. I beseech you to b... ...t the head of each coffin rises a slab, with a gilded inscription; for the princesses, the slab is simple, not unlike our own monumental stones. The h...

...roduction, I had opportunities of seeing and hearing the queen and all the princesses; which at that time was a novelty in my life, naturally a good d... ... a stranger even to the king’s person. I had, indeed, seen most or all the princesses in the way I have mentioned above; and occasionally, in the stre... ... danc- ing with sisters—as too often occurred in those dances to which the princesses were parties—disturbed the appropri- ate interest of the scene, ... ...The same thing had been done throughout the Thirty Years’ war, both by the Bavarian, im- perial, and afterwards by the Swedish officers of rank. And i...

...is wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? He left Rebecca presently to frequent these par- ties alone, re... ...at a pate de foie gras was poisoned. He went to a ball at the hotel of the Bavarian envoy, the Count de Springbock-Hohenlaufen, with his head shaved a...

...ace of ‘majesty itself ’, and the angelic countenances of the ‘princes and princesses of the blood royal’! Now, if the farcical puppet of a chief magi... ...oar out a stave in the presence of noble Mehevi. It was a stanza from the ‘Bavarian broom-seller’. His Typeean majesty, with all his court, gazed upon...

...is wife get, he urged, by making curtsies every night to a whole circle of Princesses? He left Rebecca presently to frequent these par- ties alone, re... ...at a pate de foie gras was poisoned. He went to a ball at the hotel of the Bavarian envoy, the Count de Springbock-Hohenlaufen, with his head shaved a... ... since the days of the prodigal Victor XIV . All the neighbouring Princes, Princesses, and Grandees were invited to the feast. Beds rose to half a cro... ...y there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beauti- ful Countess of Be...

...by shuffling cards or rattling the dice.” “Ah, that boy will find out some Bavarian or Peruvian princess; he will want a crown and an immense fortune.... ...id Eugenie. “We are rich. With forty-five thousand francs we can live like princesses for two years, and comfortably for four; but before six months —...

...newly-chosen elec- 48 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War tor, whom his Bavarian relations and the Span- iards from the Netherlands supported with ... ...zens, formerly so insolent, were seized with terror at the approach of the Bavarian army; pusillanimity now possessed them, though once so full of def... ...of Burgau, an Austrian prince, claimed it as a female fief in name of four princesses, sisters of the late duke. Two others, the Elector of Saxony, of... ... Countries under Bucquoi, and without loss of time the united Imperial and Bavarian forces, amounting to 50,000 men, entered Bohemia. All the Bohe- mi... ...he White Mountain near Prague, when they were attacked by the Imperial and Bavarian armies, on the 8th November, 1620. In the beginning of the action,... ...e superior numbers of the en- emy soon neutralized them. The charge of the Bavarians and Walloons was irresistible. The Hungarian cavalry was the firs...

... we were unshakable. We pass the time as we can, but in war as in war! The princesses Aline and Sophie sit whole days with me, and we, unhappy widows ... ...urther of the Russian war, “half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburgers, Spaniards, Italians, and Neapoli... ...s of thousands who perished there were fewer French- men than Hessians and Bavarians. CHAPTER XXXIX SEVERAL TENS OF THOUSANDS of the slain lay in dive...

...r: noble, up- right... but you see he has no one with him except the young princesses.... They are still young....” She bent her head and continued in... ... of a Christian...” A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length ... ...nt to his father’s part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom wer... ...ot evince the least surprise at seeing them there. “Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked Anna Mikhaylovna of one of them. “Y es,” rep... ...g a door. This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stock- 44 War & Peace ing. Pierre h... ...urther of the Russian war, “half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburgers, Spaniards, Italians, and Neapoli... ...eds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians. CHAPTER XXXIX SEVERAL TENS of thousands of the slain lay in dive...

...oung guard, marching by twos instead of threes, bore consequently upon the Bavarian Uhlans (an ill- disciplined and ill-affected body), and then, fall... ... mixed up in the wondrous liquor, and gentle visions of bygone princes and princesses look blandly down on us from the cloudy perfume of the pipe. Do ... ...ay Saracens, and had more than one direct offer of marriage made to him by princesses, countesses, and noble ladies possessing both charms and money, ... ...ren; but the Princes of Joinville, Aumale, and Montpensier (married to the Princesses Januaria and Februaria, of Brazil, and the Princess of the Unite... ... cracking a whip; there are a dozen Miss Woolfords, who appear like Polish princesses, Dihannas, Sultannas, Cachuchas, and heaven knows what! There’s ...

... Armed with which, I had a swim in the Main, and then bread and cheese and Bavarian beer in a sort of cafe, or at least the German substitute for a ca... ...ndecipherable manner, connected with the Queen of En- gland and one of the Princesses. He had been in Turkey, and had there married a wife of immense ...

...f my mother, who is delightful, but as irresponsible as one of those crazy princesses that shock their Royal families… “ He seemed to bite his tongue ... ...had a broad ribbon of some order across his shirt front. An orange ribbon. Bavarian, I should say. Great Roman Catholic, Azzolati. It was always his a...