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...tectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi-... ...ur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a refle... ... glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it wa... ...dral. 10 A Little Tour in France II. IT IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL CHURCH of the second order of impor- tance, with a charming mouse-colored complexion and ... ... the wing is yet a nobler monument than the memory of Gaston deserves. The second of the sons of Henry IV.,— who was no more fortunate as a father tha... ... of so much of our modern industry. It ought to gratify Mr. Ruskin. V. THE SECOND TIME I went to Blois I took a carriage for Chambord, and came back b... ... for it; and if the hopes of another restoration are in the follies of the Republic, a little reflection on that elo- quence of ruin ought to put the ... ...provinces I rarely encountered a well-dressed male. Can it be possible the republics are unfavorable to a certain attention to one’s boots and one’s b... ... She was one of the signers of the League of Cambray, against the Venetian republic, and was a most politic, accomplished, and judicious princess. She...

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...ssary to say that the Polish count, though an exile, was no expense to the French government. Comte Adam Laginski belonged to one of the oldest and mo... ...SKIS. But heraldic knowledge is not the most distinguishing feature of the French nation under Louis-Philippe, and Polish nobility was no great recomm... ...o be a student. The Polish nationality had at this period fallen as low in French estimation, thanks to a shameful governmental reac- tion, as the rep... ...in French estimation, thanks to a shameful governmental reac- tion, as the republicans had sought to raise it. The singular struggle of the Movement a... ...will to succor Poland? The Poles were held up to them as the allies of the republican party, and they never once re- membered that Poland was a republ... ...erature within its grasp. There are, alas! two sorts of Polish exiles,—the republican Poles, sons of Lelewel, and the noble Poles, at the head of whom... ...an is not very handsome she is horri- bly ugly. Comte Adam belonged in the second category of human beings. His small face, rather sharp in expression... ...house in the rue de la Pepiniere. Six months later his style of living was second to none in Paris. About the time when he thus began to take himself ... ...es, Malebranche, Spinoza, Buffon; also the true poets and solitarys of the second Chris- tian century, and the Saint Teresas of Spain, and such sub- l...

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...erials. FIRST The remains of monarchial tyranny in the person of the king. SECONDL Y The remains of aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the... ...s of aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the peers. THIRDLY The new republican materials in the per sons of the commons, on whose virtue dep... ... words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy. SECONDLY That the commons, by being appointed for that purpose, are ei... ...except in extraordinary cases, where the Almighty interposed) was a kind of republic ad ministered by a judge and the elders of the tribes. Kings th... ...ession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on ... ...ay that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honourable one. A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself ... ...a proper name for the government of England. Sir William Meredith calls it a republic; but in its present state it is unworthy of the name, because t... ...The first king of England, of the present line (William the Conqueror) was a Frenchman, and half the Peers of England are descendants from the same co...

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...porary phase and ex- pected to find many arguments against it in the great Republic. In regard to these things it was a pleasure to him to feel that, ... ..., very short skirts and stockings of every tint—was going home, in elegant French clothes, to re- sume an interrupted education. Pandora overlooked an... ...n and had scarcely looked at him. She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms 14 Pandora of t... ... made the observation in other capitals, that the first year, and even the second, is the time for prudence. One was ignorant of proportions and value... ...ociety had yielded considerable fruit. When, however, in April, during the second year of his residence, he presented himself at a large party given b... ... with, the self-made girl’s a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn’t self-made at all. We all help to make her— we take s... ...convinced of what he had already suspected, that conversation in the great Republic was more yearn- ingly, not to say gropingly, psychological than el...

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... Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of T... ...unity University. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [A story of the French Revolution] Book the First—Recalled to Life I The Period IT WA S T... ...Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second hand cares, like second hand clothes, come easily off and on. Compl... ...of travelling, sir, in T ellson and Company’s House.” “Yes. We are quite a French House, as well as an English one.” “Yes, sir. Not much in the habit ... ...d her eyebrows by the breadth of another line. “It is not often,” said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, “that many of these miser... ... not so, Jacques?” “It is so, Jacques,” Monsieur Defarge returned. At this second interchange of the Christian name, Ma dame Defarge, still using her... ...in hold, as their capricious judgment or fancy deemed best for the dawning Republic One and Indivisible, of Liberty , Equal ity, Fraternity, or Death... ... more than ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning Republic one and indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, Mo... ... for him. The new era began; the king was tried, doomed, and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory o...

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...—if by chance any of those birds of ponder- ous flight still linger in the second-hand carriage-shops— might be made, as to its structure and arrangem... ...it down with the bourgeois. His clothing, like that of all coachmen of the second class, consisted of stout boots, heavy with nails, made at Isle-Adam... ...are English springs for those called “swan-necks,” and other old-fashioned French contrivances. But these hard and distrustful manufacturers would onl... ...n that enforced it, had the effect, coming from a man who stood as high as second 16 A Start in Life valet to the Comte de Serizy, of cooling the ard... ...She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl, raw-silk stockings, and low shoes; and in her hand s... ...efer- ences, Pierrotin, it isn’t right.” “Coucous and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals,” said Georges. “Oh! be easy,” said Pere Leger; “we are su... ... the rank of captain in 1832. When the amateur of the best of all possible republics was removed from the command of the National guard, Oscar Husson,...

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... more dexterous and excellent dancer. But also by the grace of his manner, and fine conversation he knew to win the Queen, and she graciously accorded... ...has been clandestinely inspecting him in his privacy and mentally commenting upon him. I eyed the raven, and the raven eyed me. Nothing was said durin... ... strength enough to crawl up on to the comb and lean his back agin the chimbly, and then he collected his impressions and begun to free his mind. I se... ...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... them.” “This is divine. Go on—it is not possible that you forgot to inquire into her politics?” “No, I thought of that. She is a democrat, her husban... ...aring along in the opposite direction. This is lucky! You are Mr. Riley, ain’t you?” Riley was the most self-possessed and solemnly deliberate person ... ...dden on a rail to the confines of the canton, and banished forever. The severest penalties are omitted in your case—not as a grace to you, but to that...

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...s corroborated by a despatch from General King at Fredericksburg, saying a Frenchman, just arrived from Richmond by way of Gordonsville, met 10,000 to... ...ts from Rich- mond to Jackson could be in Gordonsville, as reported by the Frenchman and your deserters. Have not all been sent to de- ceive? A. LINCO... ... by the conclusion of two treaties which should provide for a loan to that republic. He has therefore signed such trea- ties, and they having been dul... ...ur excellent minister in Mexico and respect- ful to the Government of that republic to lay the treaties before the Senate, together with the correspon... ...f the Shenandoah Department, now under General Banks, shall constitute the Second Army Corps, and be commanded by him; the troops under the command of... ...ctory for you to know. First. All the sick and wounded were safely removed Second. A despatch from Burnside shows that he is from White House; not a m... ...NT OF THE UNITED STA TES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. Whereas in and by the second section of an act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1... ...I under- stand you now to be willing to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided they have “heart in it.” Agreed. I want no others. Bu... ...he coast of Cuba between the United States war steamer San Jacinto and the French brig Jules et Marie, resulting in serious damage to the latter. The ...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ... Descoings; for in the same week (or rather, we should say decade, for the Republic had then been proclaimed) he was imprisoned on a hint from Robespi... ... widow, who, however, was too inconsolable to carry on the business of her second deceased husband, he married the charming girl, with the consent of ... ...brary which Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this a... ...s of the incorruptibility which we attribute to several men who served the Republic. On the opposite wall, over a card-table, flashed a picture of the... ...rships. As for the brilliant Descoings, she occupied an appartement on the second floor similar to that of her niece above her. She had made Madame Br... ... to which we owe Joseph Bridau, one of the greatest painters of the modern French school of art. Philippe, the elder of the two sons, was strikingly l... ...earn his own living. He declared he was quite sufficiently advanced in the second class to get on without rhetoric. Philippe, a captain at nineteen an... ... less in the idea than in the men who conceived it; for T exas is to-day a republic, with a future full of promise. This scheme of Liberalism under th...

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...00 prisoners reported by General Sedgwick include the 400 taken by General French, or do the Whole amount to 1900? A. LINCOLN. ORDER CONCERNING THE EX... ...res that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasi... ...from the United States of Colombia, and have accredited a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced ... ...arged navigation becomes a palpable need to the great road. I transmit the second annual report of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, ... ...obligation of the United States to guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government and to protect the State in the cases stated ... ...igher duties of tonnage and im- post have been imposed or levied since the second day of August, 1838, in the ports of Nicaragua, upon vessels wholly ... ...ilian, and another pointing out to me what will secure his release! On the second day of January last, I wrote to General Curtis in relation to Mr. Di... ...A. LINCOLN. ORDER IN REGARD TO THE EXPORTATION OF TOBACCO BELONGING TO THE FRENCH GOV- ERNMENT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, March 7, 1864. Whereas... ...ember last permission was given to export certain tobacco belonging to the French government from insurgent territory, which tobacco was supposed to h...

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...Rewards and Fairies ‘“Though you have said it,” I said, “I will give you a second chance.” I did not like being called to account for my doings on my ... ...; but it’s often that way with boys. ‘Just when the owl comes home for the second time, I saw Sir Huon and the Lady ride down my Hill, where there’s n... ...ack between the yews. ‘“Simply that De Avila broke in upon a plantation of French- men on that coast, and very Spaniardly hung them all for heretics—e... ...e!’ She stamped her red foot again, and the two children shrunk back for a second. ‘Nay, nay. You must not turn from me too! She laid it all fairly be... ...owed a plasterer in Eighteen hundred Sixty-one—down to the wells. He was a Frenchy—a bad enemy he was.’ ‘I had mine too. He was an Italian, called Ben... ...e T orrigiano—T orrisany we called him?’ ‘I can’t say I ever did. Was he a Frenchy like?’ ‘No, a hectoring, hard-mouthed, long-sworded Italian builder... ...d left to sort ‘emselves. The ship she was the Embuscade, a thirty-six-gun Republican frigate, Cap- tain Jean Baptiste Bompard, two days out of Le Hav... ...tiste Bompard, two days out of Le Havre, going to the United States with a Republican French Ambassador of the name of Genet. They had been up all nig... ...n 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 from that crunc...

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...h a dirty head- gear of red flannel, not unlike the Phrygian cap which the Republic had lately adopted as an emblem of liberty. Each man carried over ... ...their cos- tume as the peasants themselves. About a dozen of them wore the republican jacket known by the name of “la carmagnole.” Others, well-to-do ... ...ould easily have distinguished the few in- dividuals on whose fidelity the Republic might count among these groups, almost entirely made up of men who... ... gloomy apparition, with an accent which proved his difficulty in speaking French, “there Maine begins” (pointing with his huge, rough hand towards Er... ...“ga” is a relic of the Celtic language. It has passed from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient associa- tions ... ...ght to naught. Ha! we soldiers have a double mission,—not merely to defend French territory, but to preserve the national soul, the generous principle... ...re levelled at him, but, like a figure in a pantomime, he disappeared in a second among the tufts of gorse. These events, which have taken so many wor... ...ldiers, and they advanced in silence upon the Chouans. At the end of a few seconds each side fired, with the loss of several men. At this moment the t... ...obtained some notice at the West, where the inhabitants, observant of this second uprising, noticed on this occasion a great change in the manner in w...

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...soon concluded that this was to be set apart for the women and children. The second or central car, it turned out, was de- voted to men travelling alo... ...ves and their effects on board. The families once housed, we men carried the second car without ceremony by simultaneous assault. I suppose the reader... ...the charge, and then Jack-in-office looked me coolly in the face for several seconds and turned ostentatiously away. I believe he was half ashamed of ... ...o either but legitimate defence. Yet we may regret the free tradition of the republic, which loved to depict herself with open arms, welcoming all unf... ...mplicity of a decimal coinage which is revolting to the human mind; thus the French, in small affairs, reckon strictly by halfpence; and you have to s... ...my little restaurant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we h... ... lost to the arts. Curious and not always edify- ing are the shifts that the French student uses to defend his lair; like the cuttlefish, he must some...

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...dow-curtains, the comfortless polished floor, the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse for wear. Some people no longer look the sam... ..., an affliction with which any Parisian family may be visited. And, in the second, when her cousin had spoken to her of her dress with manifest misgiv... ...uise felt humbled through her love, one of the sharpest of all pangs for a Frenchwoman, a mortification for which she cannot forgive her lover. In the... ...this personage his importance was at once evident to Mme. de Bargeton. The second comer was a Vandenesse, the cause of the scan- dal in which Lady Dud... ...is directly affected by the caprices of the season and the vicissitudes of French agricul- ture. By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux’s you learn a ho... ...ather and good or bad seasons. He knows when it is a good year for peas or French beans, and the kind of salad stuff that is plentiful; when the Great... ... Catholics were supporters of absolute monarchy, and the Protestants for a republic.” “M. Vidal!” shouted an assistant. Vidal fled. “I don’t say, sir,... ...e and their genius, stands 65 Balzac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small sh... ...ra- tion scheme was more dangerous to the aristocracy of Eu- rope than the Republican propaganda; it was more feasible and less extravagant than the h...

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...or, to speak in the phrase of writers upon politics, we may observe in the republic of dogs, which in its original seems to be an institution of the m... ...y, and snarling against the happy dog. Again, if we look upon any of these republics engaged in a foreign war, either of invasion or defence, we shall... ...from you, but the rest, infi nitely the greater number (and especially we French and English), were so far from stooping to so base an example, that ... ...ities are called by mortal men accidents or events; but the gods call them second causes. Jupiter hav ing delivered his message to a certain number o... ...hich the brave Ancient received upon his shield, the point breaking in the second fold . . . Hic pauca . . . . desunt. They bore the wounded aga on ... ...ave to the reader the business of interpreting. On the 1st of this month a French general will be killed by a random shot of a cannon ball. On the 6th... ...ise of guns for a victory. On the 14th there will be a false report of the French king’s death. On the 20th Cardinal Portocarero will die of a dysen ... ...e, and not without some expec tation, the fulfilling of Mr. Bickerstaff’s second predic tion, that the Cardinal do Noailles is to die upon the 4th o...

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...nted by an unconquer- able restlessness. It seems unable to abide for many seconds together in the holy of holies of the captain’s state-room; it will... ...stamp heavily with my sea-boots at the foot of the cabin stairs, I made my second entry. But for this unex- pected glimpse, no act of his during the n... ...y of compliment there is nothing to beat this from a ship’s captain to his second mate at the end of a voyage, when the work is over and the sub- ordi... ...played with by people that appeared no bigger than children. I was, as the French say, biting my fists with impa- tience for that cargo frozen up-coun... ...pub- lics to the continent of kingdoms, in the assurance that both the new republics and the old kingdoms, the heat of fire and the strength of iron, ... ...restaurants, streets, and such- like public places, he indited sonnets (in French) to the eyes, ears, chin, hair, and other visible perfec- tions of a... ...so much at the sonnets, which she could not but esteem, as at poor Henry’s French accent, which was unique, re- sembling the warbling of birds, if bir...

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...east, a curious spectacle. They had formed a circle round the invalid; the second notary was sitting at a table, prepared for writing, and his colleag... ...ects of my child also, as it is all occasioned by an old man relapsed into second childhood.” “What do you say?” said the count; “900,000 francs? It i... ...s, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furni- ture. The second was the man’s conventional abode, or rather sleep- ing-place; it con... ... on your account. I will introduce you to them.” “But they appear to speak French with a very pure accent,” said Danglars. “The son has been educated ... ... him quite enthusiastic.” “Upon what subject?” asked Madame Danglars. “The French ladies, madame. He has made up his mind to take a wife from Paris.” ... ...f this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, from being con- stantly gazed upon, have become reflected ... ...ite to your correspondent in Yanina, and ask him what part was played by a Frenchman named Fernand Mondego in the catastrophe of Ali Tepelini.” “You a... ...oat embroidered with green?” “Oh, that coat is not his own idea; it is the Republic’s, which de- puted David* to devise a uniform for the Academicians... ...nd because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth. Take the Republic for a tutor; let us return with renewed strength to the battle-fie...

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...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ....” Villemain declared their author to be “the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in detail... ...efeat into a great victory. Having gained this wonderful intelligence, the second courier put spurs to his horse, and hurried away to the King’s camp,... ...aining illegitimate chil- dren, and wished to marry Mademoiselle de Blois (second daughter of the King and of Madame de Montespan) to Monsieur the Duc... ...atron, and, in a duel which he had with M. de Beau- fort, took Villars for second. M. de Nemours was killed; but Villars was victorious against his ad... ...entering into communication with the 206 Saint-Simon generalissimo of the Republic, promised to betray into his hands several secret places belonging... ...ll England and the United Provinces mourned the loss of William. Some good republicans alone breathed again with joy in secret, at having recovered th... ...einsius, his confidant, perpetuated it, and inspired all the chiefs of the republic, their allies and their generals, with it, so that it scarcely app...

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...ing of father, mother, two children, a chambermaid and cook, living on the second floor of a house in the rue Duphot, in an apartment costing two thou... ...- ing that “Genius is patience.” Placed in a position where he could study French adminis- tration and observe its mechanism, Rabourdin worked in the ... ...overnment offices but idlers, incapables, or fools. Thus the mediocrity of French administration has slowly come about. Bureaucracy, made up entirely ... ...ash his hands with good cleansing soap; not to swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of shoes, cotton shirts instead of sacking, a... ...0 Bureaucracy who ought to be sketched, because they are specimens of that second-rate Parisian bourgeoisie which occupies a place above the well-to-d... ...f intonation, from sharp to sweet. Elisabeth was a perfect specimen of the second-rate little bourgeoisie who lectures her husband behind the cur- tai... ..., an old paper-dealer retired from business ever since the year II. of the Republic, and now sixty-nine years old, came to see them on Sundays only, b... ... who were taken young have been an honor to European monarchies and to the republics whose affairs they have directed. The 108 Bureaucracy world stil... ...(where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that for this pr...

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...vel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going ... ...althy Eyes. Get your Stomach straight and the rest follows. And all that’s French for a liver pill. I’ll take sole medical charge of you from this hou... ...non, and as queer a phenomenon as you are a blackguard. No!”—checking me a second time”not a rupee please. Go out and see if you can find the eyes-bra... ...alk by the side of any living woman’s ‘rickshaw, deep in conversation. The second and most tormenting of my moods of sickness had suddenly laid hold u... ...crow, and “greatest good of greatest number is political maxim. We are now Republic, Mister Jukes, and you are entitled to a fair share of the beast. ... ... you like, we will pass a vote of thanks. Shall I propose?” Yes, we were a Republic indeed! A Republic of wild beasts penned at the bottom of a pit, t...