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... Paris By Christopher Marlowe DRAMATIS PERSONAE CHARLES THE NINTH —King of France Duke of Anjou —his brother, afterwards KNIG HENRY THE THIRD King of... ...sters, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, &c. CATHERINE,—the Queen Mother of France MARGARET,—her daughter, wife to the KING OF NAVARRE THE OLD QUEEN OF... ...rds lets go to the Church and pray, That God may still defend the right of France: And make his Gospel flourish in this land. [Exeunt.] Scene ii : En... ...or wrong, thou deal’st thy selfe a King. I but, Navarre. Tis but a nook of France. Sufficient yet for such a pettie King: That with a rablement of his... ...te: Him will we— [Pointing to his Sworde .] But first lets follow those in France. The Massacre at Paris Christopher Marlowe 7 That hinder our pos... ...earest Lord, (For whose effects my soule is massacred) Infect thy gracious brest with fresh supply, To agravate our sodaine miserie. ADMIRALL. Come my... ...assacre at Paris Christopher Marlowe 25 Upon the hauty mountains of my brest: Plaies with her goary coulours of revenge, Whom I respect as leaves ... ...t you my Lord. [Exit.] KING. Then come proud Guise and heere disgordge thy brest, Surchargde with surfet of ambitious thoughts: Breath out that life w... ...G. Oh curse him not since he is dead. O the fatall poyson workes within my brest, Tell me Surgeon and flatter not, may I live? SURGEON. Alas my Lord, ...

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...h reached to the hips only, a garment peculiar to the peasantry of western France. Beneath this jacket, which was worn open, a waistcoat of the same l... ...o the secrets of the civil discords which were then agitating the whole of France could easily have distinguished the few in- dividuals on whose fidel... ...ed at Mayenne. During these troublous times the inhabitants of the west of France called all the soldiers of the Republic “Blues.” This nickname came ... ...and by the Russians, in whom Suwarow had inspired hopes of the conquest of France. The 7 Balzac departments of the West, known under the name of La V... ...acter of its own, and one that is somewhat unusual among the landscapes of France; it held the teeming secrets of many beauties in its various contras... ...f the artillery?” “No, citizen, into the navy.” “Ah! then you are going to Brest?” said Corentin, inter- rogatively. But the young sailor turned light...

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...oanna Elizabeth. Four years later, on April 22, 1824, Mr. Patteson married Frances Duke Coleridge, sister of his friend and fellow-barrister, John T a... ... the 8th. Besides the elder half-sister already mentioned, another sister, Frances Sophia Coleridge, a year older than, and one brother, James Henry, ... ... La Perouse, and named ‘La Boussole’ and ‘L’Astrolabe,’ had set forth from Brest on a voyage of discovery in the Pacific. They made a most discursive ... ...igner unless they may be at war with that particular nation. ‘He said that France would not allow a savage chief to say “My custom in this respect is ... ...me stuff in them; and there are plenty if they would only come. Meanwhile, France sends plenty of men; steamers bring them houses, cows for themselves... ...t publications. “It is,” he (Montrouzier) says, “thought very highly of in France.” He is a well-read man, I should imagine, in his line; and that is ...

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... Moors should take possession of her. She was a virgin vessel, just out of Brest. Poor innocent! to die in the very first month of her union with the... ...ed considerably from sea-sickness during our pas- sage along the coasts of France and Spain, consoled us all by saying that the very minute we got int... ...adness of the inn) about landing at all. A person who wishes to understand France or the East should come in a yacht to Calais or Smyrna, land for two... ...tist, and greeted him with a bow and a smile, such as only can be found in France. Then she fell to talking with a young French officer with a beard, ... ...of Joan of Arc has there surely been a more gallant and virtuous female of France) refused the drink; when suddenly a servant of the party scampers up... ...of travel on the subject, and any Frenchman whom you may meet:he says, “La France, Monsieur, de tous les temps protege les Chretiens d’Orient;” and th...

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...ayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springe... ...of his brode plated shield, It would haue cleft his braine downe to his brest. So both at once fell dead vpon the field, And each to ot... ...owes noyse disturb’d his quiet rest, Ne suffred sleepe to settle in his brest. And all the night the dogs did barke and howle About the... ... hath bene knowen: Full many great calamities and rare This feeble brest endured hath, but none Equall to this, where euer I haue gone.... ...ght, That all his vitall spirites thereby spild, And all his hairy brest with gory bloud was fild. The Faerie Queene : Book IV. 90 Who... ...ut of his Albion did on dry foot pas Into old Gall, that now is cleeped France, To fight with Hercules, that did aduance To vanquish al...

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...is skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a duke and peer of France. The boy Louis had no lesser persons than the King and Queen Marie T... ...briand. But the work at once became uni- versally read and quoted, both in France and England. Macaulay made frequent use of it in his historical essa... ... night of the 15th of January, 1675, of Claude Duc de Saint-Simon, Peer of France, and of his sec- ond wife Charlotte de l’Aubepine. I was the only ch... ...her had had only a daughter. He married her to the Duc de Brissac, Peer of France, only brother of the Duchesse de Villeroy. She died in 1684, without... ...g suffered a cruel disappointment. James II. of England, then a refugee in France, had advised the King to give battle to the English fleet. Joined to... ...mpaign. Afterwards he took three large English ships of war that he led to Brest, and sank another of a hundred 333 Saint-Simon guns. The English of ...

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...HEVALIERS DE VALOIS MOST PERSONS have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at... ... all willing to leave the Bourbons in tranquil possession of the throne of France; for it was too plainly established that Henri IV. became king for w... ...high-bred grace of an old French mar- quis, the secret of which is lost to France since the day when Fleury, Mole’s last pupil, vanished. The private ... ...e d’Esgrignons, the Troisvilles were enabled to see that he bore: Party of France, two cottises gemelled gules, and gules, five mascles or, placed end... ...llions on which we have an eye. Besides, we are patriotic; we want to help France in getting back her money from the pockets of those gentry. Hey! hey... ...itors; it is not on the road to any capital; even sailors, travelling from Brest to Paris, never stop there. The poor woman ended by admitting to hers...

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...d hidden by bushy black brows, were like those of the Kalmucks who entered France in 1815; if they ever sparkled it was only under the influence of a ... ...d conductors on the roofs of the coaches. Each profession, each calling in France has its slang. “Have you seen the ‘Ducler’?” asked Minoret. “Monsieu... ... events which happened under this curious cognomenism. In whatever part of France you may be, you will find the same thing under changed names, but wi... ... invented the famous balm of Lelievre, so much extolled by the “Mercure de France,” the weekly organ of the Encyclope- dists, in whose columns it was ... ...umstance that was wholly accidental. Who has not felt in traveling through France, where the 19 Balzac eye is often wearied by the monotony of plains... ...med the doctor and Ursula that he had signed his articles and was to be at Brest on the 25th. The doctor asked him to dinner on the 18th, and he passe...

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...ees vetoed, scenes in, reprimands King’s ministers, declares war, declares France in danger, reinstates Petion, nonplused, Lafayette, King and Swiss, ... ..., at Jales. AUCH, M. Martin d’, in Versailles Court. AUSTRIA quarrels with France. AUSTRIAN Committee, at Tuileries. AUSTRIAN Army, invades France, de... ...ail at. BARBAROUX and Marat, Marseilles Deputy, and the Rolands, on Map of France, demand of, to Marseilles, meets Marseillese, in National Convention... ...s to father. BOURDEAUX, priests hanged at, for Girondism. BOYER, duellist. BREST, sailors revolt, state of, in 1791, Federes in Paris, in 1793. BRETEU... ...ary Court, in command, in of- fice, dismissed. BRUNSWICK, Duke, marches on France, advances, Proclama- tion, at Verdun, at Argonne, retreats. 7 Index... ...Constitution, Revolutionary. COMMUNE, Council-General of the, Sovereign of France, en- listing. CONDE, Prince de, attends Louis XV., departure of. CON... ..., King of, to assist Marie Antoinette, shot by Ankarstrom. SWISS Guards at Brest, prisoners at La Force. TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Bishop, notice of, at fa...

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... on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal France, and Royal Proclamation to all the Provinces, answers anxiously, No;... ...ty months; and 10 The French Revolution—V olume Two see a wild-fermenting France work out its own destiny, and theirs. Months bleak, ungenial, of rap... ...re flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same. As ... ...w is may be worked with. Unhappily our National Assembly has much to do: a France to regenerate; and France is short of so many requisites; short even... ... cannonaded by a brave Bouille. Of sailors, nay the very galley-slaves, at Brest, needing also to be cannonaded; but with no Bouille to do it. For ind... ... Amis, iii. c. 14; iv. c. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 14. Expedition des Volontaires de Brest sur Lannion; Les Lyonnais Sauveurs des Dauphinois; Massacre au Mans; ... ... the chronic manner, through years, by inches; with partial revolts, as of Brest Sailors or the like, which dare not spread; with men unhappy, insubor... ...obins, &c. (Hist. Parl. xiii. 171, 92-98.) Also, for like reason, must not Brest and the Shipping Interest languish? Poor Brest languishes, sorrowing,... ...ed, and on furlough too, with pay? Little stirring there; if it be not the Brest Gallies, whip-driven, with their Galley-Slaves,—alas, with some Forty...

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... Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the world; France is roused; long have ye been lecturing and tutoring this poor Nation... ...ents! It is thus that, for some three years to come, we are to contemplate France, in this final Third Volume of our History. Sansculottism reigning i... ...n a wise Frenchman, who, looking, close at hand, on this waste aspect of a France all stirring and whirling, in ways new, untried, had been able to di... ...ntic crowd- ing towards Townhouses and Council-halls in the interior. Wild France dashes, in desperate death-defiance, towards the Frontiers, to defen... ...l a spontaneous or ‘improvised’ Commune, is, for the present, sovereign of France. The Legislative, deriving its authority from the Old, how can it no... ...tfuller 190 The French Revolution - V olume Three methods may succeed. In Brest, to like purpose, rules Jean-Bon Saint-Andre; with an Army of Red Nig... ...orne from the Ocean too; of tone most pierc- ing? War-thunder from off the Brest waters: Villaret-Joyeuse and English Howe, after long manoeuvring hav...

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...ree,—some say to the Duke of Berry, whom she had met in her early youth in France. In despair of obtaining her desire, she hanged her- self. It is cur... ...e:’ an allusion to the royal oak. 7 ‘Thistle:’ of Scotland. 8 ‘Lily:’ of France. 40 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Blest swains... ...’er all the northern world advance, But critic-learning flourish’d most in France: The rules a nation, born to serve, obeys; And Boileau still in righ... ...ecretary to Queen Mary, wife of James II., whose fortunes he followed into France, author of the comedy of ‘Sir Solomon Single,’ and of several transl... ...l, And leave inanimate the naked wall, Still in thy song should vanquish’d France appear, And bleed for ever under Britain’s spear. Let softer strains... ...ote, The ducke sore tickleth his erse roote: Fore-piece and buttons all to-brest, Forth thrust a white neck, and red crest. 2...

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...eet, in the middle of a town, in one of the least important prefectures in France, but the name of the street and the name of the town must be suppres... ... at court; one cadet of the house became an admiral, a duke, and a peer of France, and died without issue. Never would the Marquis d’Esgrignon of the ... ...the title of duke. “I hold my marquisate as His Majesty holds the realm of France, and on the same conditions,” he told the Constable de Luynes, a ver... ... goodness for lack of intelligence. T wo-thirds of the emigres returned to France during 1804 and 1805, and almost every exile from the Marquis d’Esgr... ...ch did so much harm to the country. The most national of all sentiments in France is vanity. The wounded vanity of the many induced a thirst for Equal... ...ey stepped into the carriage. A few minutes later they were on the road to Brest, and Paris lay behind them. Victurnien ut- tered not a sound; he was ... ... will go at once to Paris as fast as I can; I can hear the mail coach from Brest.” In a moment the old man recovered the faculties of his youth—his ag...

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...wards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My departure for France was fixed for the first days in May. Meanwhile I was occupying mysel... ...onour of consulting me on the phenomenon in ques- tion. I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of the Great Su... ...his expedition, the Government of the United States will with pleasure see France represented in the enterprise. Commander Farragut has a cabin at you... ...; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Eur... ...e I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the antipodes. “Conseil,” I called in an imp... ... manned two large merchantmen, the Recherche and the Esperance, which left Brest the 28th of September under the command of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux. Two... ...s inscription— ”Bazin m’a fait,” the mark of the foundry of the arsenal at Brest about 1785. There could be no further doubt. Dillon, having made all ... ...of April, in the same year, it joined the squadron of Villaret Joyeuse, at Brest, being entrusted with the escort of a cargo of corn coming from Ameri...

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...for it, as you’ d say. He picked master craftsmen from all parts— England, France, Italy, the Low Countries—no odds to him so long as they knew their ... ...ld say—because I’ d saved him the money; his smile as though he’d won half France! I thought of my own silly pride and foolish expectations that some ... ... tells us that they had cut off their King Louis’ head, and, moreover, the Brest forts had fired on an English man-o’-war. The news wasn’t a week old.... ... the capstan. Day in and day out Bompard and Monsieur Genet talked o’ what France had done, and how the United States was going to join her to finish ... ...s war. Monsieur Genet said he’d justabout make the United States fight for France. He was a rude common man. But I liked listening. I always helped dr... ...y shouted, “Down with En- gland!” — “Down with W ashington!” — “Hurrah for France and the Republic!” I couldn’t make sense of it. I wanted to get out ...

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...it had Madame Tallien! In these days there is certainly a throne to let in France which is for her who can fill it. We among us could make a queen. I ... ... beauty which were found severally in per- fection in each one of them. In France it is extremely rare, not to say impossible, to meet with the thirty... ...raglio, which are needed to make a woman abso- lutely beautiful. Though in France the whole is seldom seen, we find exquisite parts. As to that imposi... ... ter apart. Take these two kinds of sheep, transfer them to Switzerland or France; the mountain breeds will feed apart even in a lowland meadow of thi... ...evoted servant took off no heads, he succeeded in vanquishing the whole of France, and trained Louis XIV ., who completed Richelieu’s work by strangli... ...tiously as Jacques Collin appeared on the scene, “the difference be- tween Brest, T oulon, and Rochefort is—” “Well, old cock?” said the lad, with the... ...ell next to that where Lucien had been. “My son,” Fil-de-Soie went on, “at Brest you are sure to get some beans at the third turn if you dip your spoo...

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...beauty was lost to me then, and I saw nothing but the tri-coloured flag of France trailing over the stern of six vessels, whose black hulls and bristl... ...vation. The expedition for the occupation of the Marquesas had sailed from Brest in the spring of 1842, and the secret of its destination was solely i... ...of his ancestors, the disinterested strang- ers have come all the way from France: they are determined that his title shall be acknowledged. If any tr...

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... of Scotland. It was bestowed on me when it was thought the young widow of France and Scotland would gladly have wedded an English baron; but a free c... ...r who knows where the smith is that you call for? He may be in the King of France’s stables for what I know.” “Why , you said but now he was no devil,... ... “And thou,” said T ressilian, “what dost thou think to make of thyself?” “France, Spain, either India, East or West, shall be my ref- uge,” said Wayl... ...throne of Edward II., and aspired to share his power with the “She-wolf of France,” to whom the unhappy monarch was wedded. The gate, which opened und... ... from Switzerland—urging this as a point on which Europe’s safety depends. France will not oppose it. The ruling party in Scotland look to it as their... ... for knives in the tayle of the horse, and a case for oyster knives in the brest of the Dragon. A green barge-cloth, embrother’d with white lions and ...

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...er novels, though they attained and merited a certain popular- ity both in France and England, are a measure only of her 16 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin... ...ng the dramatic art and national character of England, Germany, Italy, and France. If he were dull, he would write stories and poems. ‘I have written,... ...sh lad, thus to play the part of rumour in such a crisis of the history of France.] ‘But now a new fear came over me. I had little doubt but my papa w... ...e chose the tricolour, for it had followed and accompanied the triumphs of France all over the world, and that the red flag had only been dipped in th... ... said, men distinguished on the Liberal side. Like Wordsworth, they beheld France standing on the top of golden hours And human nature seeming born ag... ...ne to St. Pierre to lay the shore ends. The Hawk and Chiltern have gone to Brest to lay shore ends. The Hawk and Scanderia go with us across the Atlan... ... her for all the chicks and pay out cotton reels… . Here we are at 4.20 at Brest. We leave probably to-morrow morning. 94 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin ‘...

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...ces of plants. But the Phoenicians, sailing over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those ... ...een brought over, in very early times indeed, from the opposite country of France, anciently called Gaul, and to have mixed up the worship of the Serp... ...and put him to death), sought refuge at the court of Charlemagne, King of France. On the death of Beortric, so unhappily poisoned by mistake, Egber... ...their retainers, fought their way out of London, and escaped from Essex to France in a fishing boat. The other Norman favourites dispersed in all dire... ...is oath and resign the Crown. Harold would do no such thing. The barons of France leagued together round Duke William for the invasion of England. Duk... ...ely, he was more brave than wise, for, skimming into the French harbour of Brest with only a few row boats, he attempted (in revenge for the de feat ...

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...le, “Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement ... ...uis XIII had surrounded himself, this second, or rather this first king of France, became desirous that he, too, should have his guard. He had his Mus... ...vals vied with each other in procuring, not only from all the provinces of France, but even from all foreign states, the most celebrated swordsmen. It... ...or?” asked another. “Only till the queen has given an heir to the crown of France.” “No jesting upon that subject, gentlemen,” said Porthos; “thank Go... ... still of an age to give one!” “They say that Monsieur de Buckingham is in France,” replied Aramis, with a significant smile which gave to this senten... ...rench permitted him, at one of the ports of Brittany, either at Lorient or Brest. But the wind was contrary, the sea bad; they tacked and kept offshor... ...ons she brought against others. She allowed the vessel to pass Lorient and Brest without repeating her request to the captain, who, on his part, took ...

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...den Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ the Russian officer’s adventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff... ...a Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army into Germany in ... ...ame of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI had not long the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out... ...when our sover- eigns were full of the vain hope of obtaining the crown of France, or at least of regaining the great possessions that their forefathe... ...m as the fortress of Calais, the possession of which gave an entrance into France. Thus it was that when, in 1346, Edward III. had beaten Philippe VI.... ...the ‘Galeres’, or Hulks, the ships in the chief harbors of France, such as Brest and Marseilles, where the convicts, closely chained, were kept to har...

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... with Frank, and just proclaimed at Saint Germains, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN’S PAY IN QUIN’S REGIMENT.... ...rigues in behalf of the young Prince, James the Third, as he was called in France and by his party here (this Prince, or Chevalier de St. George, was ... ...d as a sister of the house. “Y our nurse’s family were silk-weavers out of France, whither they returned to Arras in French Flanders, shortly before y... ... the campaign. Holtz, who knew everything that was passing in Flanders and France 114 Henry Esmond – Book Two (and the Indies for what I know), insis... ... been at Toulon in the last year, he was back again on another frontier of France, assailing it with his indefatigable fury. When the Prince came to t... ...h covered this convoy, and to betray it as he had be- trayed Tollemache at Brest; as he had betrayed every friend he had, to further his own schemes o...

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...ich this great Prince has earned. ’ (Abrege Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (Paris, 1775), p. 701.) So stands it written; in lasting memorial of... ... Maupeou: 13 Thomas Carlyle these, as they sit in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis they continue th... ...urning from Corsica, could see ‘with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a ma... ...source of sighs, tears, of pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to... ...ome an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar (if we were not used to th... ...urse eloquent music. For, hearing what was toward, Georget sprang from the Brest Diligence, and ran. Gardes Francaises also will be here, with real ar... ... cannonaded by a brave Bouille. Of sailors, nay the very galley-slaves, at Brest, needing also to be cannon- aded; but with no Bouille to do it. For i... ... Amis, iii. c. 14; iv. c. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 14. Expedition des Volontaires de Brest sur Lannion; Les Lyonnais Sauveurs des Dauphinois; Massacre au Mans; ... ... the chronic manner, through years, by inches; with partial revolts, as of Brest Sail- ors or the like, which dare not spread; with men unhappy, 239 ...

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...ny ways as a matter of vital importance to princes. In 1500 he was sent to France to obtain terms from Louis XII for continuing the war against Pisa: ... ...e varying fortunes of the Italian states, which in 1507 were controlled by France, Spain, and Germany, with results that have lasted to our day; we ar... ...he personality of Machiavelli. He had several meet- ings with Louis XII of France, and his estimate of that monarch’s character has already been allud... ...d which broke out between the pope and the French, because friendship with France had dictated the entire policy of the Republic. When, in 1511, Juliu... ... Republic. When, in 1511, Julius II finally formed the Holy League against France, and with the assistance of the Swiss drove the French out of Italy,... ... to flight: For the old Roman valour is not dead, Nor in th’ Italians’ brests extinguished. —Edward Dacre, 1640. DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTE...

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...ich this great Prince has earned. ’ (Abrege Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (Paris, 1775), p. 701.) So stands it written; in lasting memorial of... ...u and the Parlement Maupeou: these, as they sit in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis they continue th... ...urning from Corsica, could see ‘with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a ma... ...source of sighs, tears, of pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to... ...se may pray,—to Beelzebub, or whoever will hear them. But from the rest of France there comes, as was said, no prayer; or one of an opposite character... ...ome an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singular (if we were not used to the ... ...urse eloquent music. For, hearing what was toward, Georget sprang from the Brest Diligence, and ran. Gardes Francaises also will be here, with real ar...

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...ese young men were arrested, subjected to many indignities, dragged across France like criminals, and closely confined in a Concentration Camp at La F... ... of the situa- tion to say that young Cummings is an enthusiastic lover of France and so loyal to the friends he has made among the French soldiers, t... ...d distrust that has naturally re- sulted from the painful experience which France has had with foreign emissaries. Be assured, Mr. President, that I h... ...ho ever dedicated an only son to a great cause. The mothers of our boys in France have rights as well as the boys themselves. My boy’s mother had a ri... ...ent and your son were suffering such prolonged injus- tice at the hands of France; and your son’s mother had been needlessly kept in Hell as many week... ...ke fifty thousand franc last year runnin’ whorehouse in” (I think it was) “Brest. Son of bitch!” “Dat fat feller” lived in a perfectly huge bed which ... ...es the reader to The Washing Machine Man, a Hollander, owner of a store at Brest where he sold the highly utiles contrivances which gave him his name.... ... ac- companied him. They were enjoying life placidly in, it may have been, Brest—I forget—when one night the gendarmes suddenly broke into their room,...

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...of the monarchy, has felt the necessity of mystifying the worthy people of France with a few new words and old ideas, like philosophers of every schoo... ...as an ingenuousness in his tones that set these writers, the hope of young France, in a roar. “So far our blasphemies have been uttered over our cups;... ... should like to go to Botany Bay, as we have no Chartreaux left us here in France; it is a sort of infirmary reserved for little Lord Byrons who, havi... ... richly carpeted,” Raphael said. “Luxury in the peristyle is not common in France. I feel as if life had begun anew here.” “And up above we are going ... ...ens, of the stock of the Valentinois, founders of the cities of Valence in France, and Valencia in Spain, rightful heirs to the Em- pire of the East. ... ... any rate, my good friend!” ex- claimed a naval officer who had never left Brest. “Glory is a poor bargain; you buy it dear, and it will not keep. Doe...

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...es it im possible accurately to describe. He travelled in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, in Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. He went even to In... ...cerecloths of Le Nain; many wore the blouses and the caps of the rabble in France, and many the dingy , smoke grimed weeds of English poor. And they s... ...the south west wind that blew with a salt fresh ness. The long streets of Brest, present to his fancy always in a drizzle of rain, with the lights of...

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...in sufficient 12 In the Fourth Year abundance to go on fighting: Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. There are three others which are ve... ...as these in a session of weeks or months. The idea the Germans betrayed at Brest, that things were going to be done in the Versailles fashion by great... ...pared. Unless we provide beforehand for some- thing more effective, Italy, France, the United States, Japan, and this country will send separate group... ...ve the British 16 In the Fourth Year settled, for example, with Italy and France for the supply of metallurgical coal after the war? Those countries ... ...t. Or take another question: Have the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen... ... with- out a loss of your sovereign freedom. People in this country and in France do not seem to be sitting up manfully to these necessary proposition...

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................................................................. 22 ANA TOLE FRANCE—1904 .................................................................. ...his art—least of all to the miserable vanity of a catching phrase. ANATOLE FRANCE—1904 I.—”CRAINQUEBILLE” THE LATEST VOLUME of M. Anatole France purpo... ...rank of Prince of Prose. Never has a dignity been better borne. M. Anatole France is a good prince. He knows nothing of tyr- anny but much of compassi... ... because it is safe. The dignity will suffer no diminu- tion in M. Anatole France’s hands. He is worthy of a great tradition, learned in the lessons o... ...ould be in his public ac- tion. It is a Republican dignity. And M. Anatole France, with his sceptical insight into an forms of government, is a good R... ... years ago it happened that while the En- glish Fleet was keeping watch on Brest, an Ameri- can, perhaps Fulton himself, offered to the Maritime Prefe...

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...ers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty... ...gun;” and the Colonel took off his hat as he mentioned the name darling to France. “When our troops returned from the sally in which your gallant stor... ... by a young English prisoner, Monsieur de Fogarty.” “Wounded! a marshal of France wounded! Where is the Englishman? Bring him out, and let a file of g... ... it blazed as if in triumph at the sun’s retreat. ’Tis a fair land that of France, a gentle, a green, and a beautiful; the home of arts and arms, of c... ...seat of ancient renown and disciplined valor. And of all that fair land of France, whose beauty is so bright and bravery is so famous, there is no spo... ...afterwards, as the gallant frigate, the “Repudia- tor,” was sailing out of Brest Harbor, the gigantic form of an Indian might be seen standing on the ...

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............................................... 365 CHAPTER VIII I TRA VEL TO FRANCE AND BRING HOME A PORTRAIT OF RIGAUD. .................................. ...ll off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden? Shall we see something of France and England besides V ersailles and Windsor? I saw Queen Anne at the... ...rwards, his cousin whom he had refused. By places, pensions, bounties from France, and gifts from the King, whilst his daughter was in favor, Lord Cas... ... conquest of sev- eral beauties and toasts. He had fought and conquered in France, as well as in Flanders; he had served a couple of cam- paigns with ... ... with Frank, and just proclaimed at Saint Germains, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. 171 Thackeray CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN’S PAY IN Q... ...convoy, and to betray it as he had be- 269 Thackeray trayed Tollemache at Brest; as he had betrayed every friend he had, to further his own schemes o...