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...ntroduction Chapter 1 Europe Musings of the Muses: Italy Rome Florence Venice La Ville-Lumiere: France Paris Chateau De Versailles Divonne-les-Bains Chiming clocks: Geneva To be or not to be: England London Brighton Moors’ Last Sigh: Spain Granada Wien on Vespa: Austria Vienna Medieval Magyars: Hungary B...

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...geld (emergency money). Notgeld was used during the inflationary period brought on by reparations payments stipulated by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles after WWI....

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...g with berry oil and wine, belly laughing into the chorus of love, with crystallized euphoria delivering the message of a stardust twinkled Palace of Versailles. ...

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...is XVI. For the next nine years her official residence was the sumptuous Palace of Versailles. When the French Revolution turned into the Reign of ...

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... contra spaniolilor. Au fost înrola ţi şi solda ţi negri. Tratatul de la Versailles din 1783 încheia r ăzboiul american de independen ţă, cedând Fl...

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...kaŭajo de Paris. Agas propagande ĉe la Iniciativa Sindikato por turismo en Versailles (ties konsilanto),. kaj en la “Centre d' Etudes Internationales”... ... la konscienco de la mondo la frenezecon kaj konfuzecon de la kontrakto de Versailles” . (El la Enkonduko.) Evoluo de Esperanto. La koncepto pri evolu... ...bor-O cejo. (ILO). Estis fondita en 1920 en Geneve laŭ la packontrakto de Versailles por interkonsentoj en industria leĝaro de diversaj regnoj. Komen... ...olm kaj liaj amikoj. Lefebvre, (ps. Ned Katryn), franco, estis kapitano en Versailles antaŭ la milito. Artikoloj en L.I., tre interesaj estis liaj hum...

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...blem. The brilliant display of shops as rich as the salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes which eclipse, and easily eclipse, the Versailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, new every morning, nightly destroyed; the grace and elegance of the young men that come in contact with fair customers; the piquant faces and costumes of young damsels, who ca...

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...ng area--a marbled hall reminiscent of old King Louie's Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. As the guest of honor I was seated by the President, the Mini...

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...ulated for political goals, as happened with German people after the signing of the Versailles Treaty. What aspects of Islamic-informed society seem...

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... been created by the re-drawing of arbitrary boundaries such as the treaty of Versailles after the 1 st World War? Or Palestine and Israel? Or the...

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...s of, weeps, unpopular, at Dinner of Guards, courage of, Fifth October, at Versailles, shows her- self to people, and Louis at Tuileries, and the Lorr... ...ur, after King’s capture. AUBRY, Colonel, at Jales. AUCH, M. Martin d’, in Versailles Court. AUSTRIA quarrels with France. AUSTRIAN Committee, at Tuil... ...ERTHIER, Intendant, fled, arrested and massacred. BERTHIER, Commandant, at Versailles. BESENVAL, Baron, Commandant of Paris, on French Finance, in rio... ...t of. CHABOT, of Mountain, against Kings, imprisoned. CHABRAY, Louison, at Versailles, October Fifth. 8 Index CHALIER, Jacobin, Lyons, executed, body... ...to be improved. FLANDERS, how Louis XV. conquers. FLANDRE, regiment de, at Versailles. FLESSELLES, Paris Provost, shot. FLEURIOT, Mayor, guillotined. ... ...llemand, to Bastille, name changed, National origin of, number of, Body at Versailles, October Fifth, fight, fly in Chateau, Body, and French, at Vers... ...ident, night of Thermidor, accused, banished. HERITIER, Jerome l’, shot at Versailles. 15 Index HOCHE, Sergeant Lazare, General against Prussia, paci... ...er in September. JOURDAN, General, repels Austria. JOURDAN, Coupe-tete, at Versailles, leader of Brigands, su- preme in Avignon, massacre by, flight o... ...d re- accepts, Scipio-Americanus, thanked, rewarded, French Guards and, to Versailles, Fifth October, at Versailles, swears the Guards, Feuillant, on ...

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...Court, taking up apartments which the royal favour had reserved for him at Versailles, Saint- Simon secretly entered upon the self-appointed task for ... ... he thought of everything, and laid out his plans as though he had been at Versailles. During the entire siege, the Prince of Orange (William III. of ... ...t, the King went to Dinant, to join the ladies, with whom he re- turned to Versailles. I had hoped that Monseigneur would finish the campaign, and tha... ...Charlotte Seguier!” In the afternoon the King and Queen of England came to Versailles with their Court. There was a great concert; and the play-tables... ... King declared on the 8th of June that he should return 32 Saint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The s... ...about openly. The courtiers, generally so glad to find themselves again at Versailles, now declared that they were ashamed to be there; as for the ene... ...which succeeded this, threw some light upon the state of affairs. Going to Versailles, one day, La Vauguyon met a groom of the Prince de Conde leading... ...nd gave me an exact account of my estates and possessions. I carried it to Versailles, and sought a private interview with M. de Beauvilliers. At eigh... ...long the walls, to make people make way for him with greater noise; and at Versailles worked his way on by a series of respectful and, as it were, sha...

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...o have the idea of competing with King Louis-Philippe and the galleries of Versailles. The pictures, magnificently framed, each bore labels on which w... ...ing to 23 Balzac them:— “The King has given me an order for the Museum of Versailles.” Madame de Fougeres adores her husband, to whom she has present...

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...me halcyon days of abundance fol- lowed the Menadic Insurrection, with its Versailles grain- carts, and recovered Restorer of Liberty; but they could ... ...reon; which far gleaming Brass-plate they purpose to affix solemnly in the Versailles original locality, on the 20th of this month, which is the anniv... ...ight is sinking; these Nights too, into Eternity. The hasti- est Traveller Versailles-ward has drawn bridle on the heights of Chaillot: and looked for... ...: and looked for moments over the River; report- 57 Thomas Carlyle ing at Versailles what he saw, not without tears. (Mercier, ii. 81.) Meanwhile, fr... ... of greater. But on the whole what a falling off from the old splendour of Versailles! Here in this poor Tuileries, a National Brewer-Colonel, sonoro... ...the watchful Mother of Patriotism deputed two Members to her Daugh- ter at Versailles, to examine how the matter looked there. Well, and there? Patrio... ...ies we all heard with our own ears last Saturday. They went with others of Versailles, to inspect the King’s Stables, also the stables of the whilom G... ...ile, behold, on the 19th of February 1791, Mesdames, quitting Bellevue and Versailles with all privacy, are off! Towards Rome, seemingly; or one knows... ...e great things unknown, lies for the present under blockade at Bellevue in Versailles. By no tactics could he get Mesdames’ Luggage stirred from the C...

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... is in a perplexing multiplicity of orders; but finally he strikes off for Versailles. His Prisoners fare in tumbrils, or open carts, himself and Guar... ...s riding and marching around: and at the last village, the worthy Mayor of Versailles comes to meet him, anxious that the arrival and locking up were ... ...r. It is Sunday, the ninth day of the month. Lo, on entering the Avenue of Versailles, what multitudes, stirring, swarming in the September sun, under... ...orrow morning. (Pieces officielles relatives au massacre des Prisonniers a Versailles (in Hist. Parl. xviii. 236-249).) All France, except it be the T... ...ive the Restorer of French Liberty?” Three short years ago there was still Versailles and an Oeil-de- Boeuf: now there is that watched Circuit of the ... ... turn for smithwork: how, in old hap- pier days, a certain Sieur Gamain of Versailles was wont to come over, and instruct him in lock-making;—often sc... ...d dag- gers, ’ or so, have been ordered,—doubtless, for them. They rush to Versailles, to raise more women; but the Versailles women will not rise. (B... ... the Constituent; whom the Menads and Maillard met in his carriage, on the Versailles Road. Thouret like- wise, ci-devant President, father of Constit... ... nay a certain grating of one knows not what!—Lecointre, our old Draper of Versailles, in these questionable circumstances, sees nothing he can do so ...

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...ain ruins bear witness to the pride or rather the foresight of the King of Versailles, who caused to be pulled down the ancient castles that once ador...

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... provincial attorney who became during the Revolution syn- dic-attorney at Versailles. In that position, Moreau the father had been the means of almos... ... his hatreds, pursued him, discovered him, and finally had him executed at Versailles. Moreau the son, heir to the doctrines and friend- ships of his ... ...“Gondoles,” which now ply, in rivalry with the railroad, between Paris and Versailles. Both solid and light, well-painted and well-kept, lined with fi...

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...e Hotel Rambouillet, and the Place Royale to the sixteenth; and lastly, as Versailles was to the seventeenth and the eighteenth. Just as the ordinary ... ...nce the Faubourg Saint- Germain existed at all—which is to say, ever since Versailles 27 Balzac ceased to be the royal residence—the Faubourg, with s...

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...ul; he rode on horseback at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural conseq... ...the counterfeit banker, there was all the dif- ference that exists between Versailles and the wigwam of a Huron chief. Birotteau had witnessed the spl... ...ted in copper-gilt. This relic, picked up by Gigonnet after the pillage of Versailles, where the populace broke nearly everything, came from the queen...

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...ad traced patterns on the walls. “A hall so magnificent as to be worthy of Versailles ended in a staircase such as will never again be built in France...