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... c ă am nasul belit de soare (mi se jupoaie pielea). La hotelul Sheraton Princess Kaiulani un vizitator din Japonia s-a înecat în piscin ă. Avea 59... ...dent ă în Lumea Nou ă în anul 1804. Louverture i s-a adresat lui Napoleon Bonaparte într-o scrisoare astfel: 126 „Primului dintre albi de la prim... ...ţi "Nobel", unii mai faimo şi decât al ţii: John Steinbeck (Literatur ă), Marie Curie (Fizic ă şi Chimie), Max Planck (Fizic ă). Citate aforistice ... ...ideo cu muzic ă rap, graffiti. Doar doi dublu laurea ţi În afar ă de Marie Curie (Premiul "Nobel" pentru Fizic ă, 1903, şi pentru Chimie, 1911)...

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...merly, assist in the national discords. The Republic, aban- doned by young Bonaparte who had seemed to be its tute- lary genius, was no longer in a co... ... how is he ever to get back, with England mistress of the Mediterranean?” “Bonaparte’s absence doesn’t trouble me, commandant,” said the young adjutan... ...into the brotherhood of the Sacred Heart. Above this sign were the words, “Marie Lambrequin,” no doubt the man’s name. “Look at that, Clef-des-Coeurs,... ... government in Paris. But the news of the almost magical return of General Bonaparte and the events of the 18th Brumaire were soon current in the air.... ... baggage belonging to the lady, whom the commandant sneeringly called “the princess”; everything, even to the clothes of her attendant squire, stirred... ...liest.” “Well,” said Francine, “since nothing escapes you, you must admit, Marie, that your conduct would excite the curiosity of a saint. Yesterday w... ... 59 Balzac way; saying in a tone of deep affection: “You know what I mean, Marie, but you will not answer me. How can you, after all that sadness whic... ...ut it is I who bring you these female citizens; they’ll pay like ci-devant princesses, therefore—” “Therefore, we’ll drink a glass of wine together pr...

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...t eyes: it was a vague resemblance which he bore to portraits of the young Bonaparte, engraved from Robert Lefebvre’s picture. That engraving is a poe... ...ut, greedy of space, craving difficulties to vanquish. Even if the name of Bonaparte were not written beneath it, you would gaze long at that face. Lu... ... complaint, I expect?” replied the veteran. “Ah! yes; we have been hard on Mariette. What would you have? I don’t know the why and wherefore of it yet... ...at sight of the dragon or of the other obstacles put be- tween him and the princess by the wicked fairy. There was a passage through the centre of the... ...privileged houses, which paid for the right of exposing women dressed like princesses under such and such an arch, or in the corresponding space of ga... ... and Mme. du Val-Noble, Felicien Vernou, Blondet, Vignon, Philippe Bridau, Mariette, Giroudeau, Cardot and Florentine, and Bixiou. He had also asked a... ...ippe,” he added, addressing Joseph Bridau; “he does not know how to manage Mariette.” “You are a man like another now; in short, you will make your wa... ... is. A joke is like a bit of thread; if it is spun too fine, it breaks, as Bonaparte said.” “Gentlemen,” said Lousteau, “we have been eye-witnesses of... ...in Lunacy Lost Illusions A Bachelor’s Establishment The Secrets of a Princess The Government Clerks Pierrette A Study of Woman Scenes fr...

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...banker who had turned Royalist. You can quite under- stand that so long as Bonaparte was Emperor, the two sons- in-law could manage to put up with the... ...aving brought to light a fair piece of cambric whereof she wotted not, the Princesses Agathe and Laure place at their brother’s disposal their thread,... ...airs of the heart are like to prosper. That is de Marsay over there in the Princesse Galathionne’s box. Mme. de Nucingen is racked with jealousy. Ther... ...gen, smiling, glanced from time to time at de Marsay, who still sat in the Princesse Galathionne’s box. Rastignac did not leave Mme. de Nucingen till ... ...are of it. They rally round him; he is the backbone of the federation, its Bonaparte, in short; he is very popular with them all. The rogue will never... ...er cup belong- ing to Vautrin—it was standing with the others in the bain- marie that kept the cream hot for the morning coffee. The spinster had reck...

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...iscretion about the weather: about the war and the downfall of the monster Bonaparte: and above all, about doctors, quacks, and the par- ticular merit... ...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... ...d not dare to speak: he gazed with all his eyes at the beautifully dressed Princess op- posite to him. Gentlemen on splendid prancing horses came up a... ...n. Lady Mary Caerlyon was brought up at a Parisian convent; the Dauphiness Marie Antoinette was her godmother. In the pride of her beauty she had been... ... Some few still exist who have beheld Frederick the Great, Doctor Johnson, Marie Antoinette, &c.—be it our reasonable boast to our children, that we s... ...rain of magnificent brocade. She stepped into the vehicle as if she were a princess and accustomed all her life to go to Court, smiling graciously on ...

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...erre; for, to tell you the truth, the after life of such women as Florine, Mariette, Suzanne de Val Noble, and Tullia has made me, every now and then,... ...h she delighted to improve with a taste that was profoundly artistic. When Bonaparte became First Consul, she increased her property by the purchase o... ...he Grand-I-Vert. Tonsard’s old mother and his two daughters, Catherine and Marie, went into the woods at certain seasons twice a- day, and came back l... ...of caring for his natural grandson’s education, kept him to himself; while Marie and Catherine made hay in the woods. These girls knew the exact spots... ... a Chaulieu. From 1818, when the impossibility of a change in favor of the Bonaparte family was made clear to him, Montcornet had himself trumpeted in... ...rned to France in 1815. The viscount, poor as a younger son, had married a Princess Scherbellof, worth about a million, but the arrival of two sons an... ...lsacian, was a natural son of the general of that name, who fell in one of Bonaparte’s first victories with the army of Italy. Tall and strong, he bel... ...rtesan’s Life Modeste Mignon Another Study of Woman The Secrets of a Princess A Daughter of Eve The Firm of Nucingen Blondet, Virginie Jea... ...ingen Blondet, Virginie Jealousies of a Country T own The Secrets of a Princess 298 Sons of the Soil A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Anot...

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...d of our history. Monsieur Ragon, formerly perfumer to her maj- esty Queen Marie-Antoinette, confided to Cesar Birotteau, during this critical period,... ...on Cesar an overpowering effect. On a fine June day, crossing by the Pont- Marie to the Ile Saint-Louis, he saw a young girl standing at the door of a... ...nsieur Cesar Birotteau, succes- sor to Ragon, former perfumer to the Queen Marie 32 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Antoinette, at The Queen of Rose... ...ise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Consul, and a representation of the battle of Austerlitz... ...ion to people whom you only know as customers. Are you going to invite the Princesse de Blamont-Chavry, who is more nearly related to your godmother, ... ...ted them; I sha’n’t respect him any the more for that. Ah! my respect is a princess who’ll never give birth to such as he. But, I say, you are a funny... ...uished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment The Secrets of a Princess The Government Clerks Pierrette A Study of Woman Scenes fr...

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...imply to say Mashurina. I know that even in letters you only sign yourself Bonaparte! I beg pardon, Mashurina, but in con- versation, however—” “And w... ...It seems to me that we are both a little uncomfortable. Young—des nouveaux maries,” she explained, “when away on their honeymoon no doubt feel as we d... ...o know! By the way,” he added, turning to his wife, “ il parait qu’il sont maries.” “Who said so? That same gentleman?” Valentina Mihailovna looked at... ...ui, oui,” the governor mumbled, shaking his head, “I heard the story … The princess told me—” Sipiagin raised his voice. “That person is a certain Mr....

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...ade her feel that the sweeping courtesy had come straight from the days of Marie Antoinette, and that it was an honour and distinction conferred by a ... ...ad accepted his uncle’s kiss, he poised his lance, and exclaimed, ‘You are Bonaparte, I’m the Duke!’ ‘Indeed,’ said Mr. Ferrars, at once seizing a wan... ...rious, that presently he was ordered off, and to use the old apple tree as Bonaparte. ‘What a stout fellow!’ said Mr. Ferrars, as he went off at a plu... ...his being high and silent. Your papa is bent on it, and you’ll live like a princess in India.’ ‘She takes you for your mother—she means papa, whispere... ...s truth.’ The urchin folded his arms on his bosom, and looked like a young Bonaparte. ‘Where’s your hand? said his uncle. ‘Wont you give it to me?’ ‘N... ...become a woman at once, if not, I’m afraid it will be the prediction about Marie Antoinette over again—very gay, and coming right through trial.’ They... ... declare, when we overtook you in the street, she looked a perfect Spanish princess, in her black robes and great shady hat. You ought always to keep ... ...ned; and then followed a string of mighty names, long enough for a Spanish princess, beginning with Belraven!!! Lucy Dusautoy’s dreary condition in th...

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...the royal house of Scotland, should have his hotel at the angle of the Rue Marie Stuart and the Rue Montorgueil. Sint ut sunt, aut non sint, the grand... ...evants who served the Republic nobly , and fell by Joubert’s side at Novi. Bonaparte had placed his son at the school at Chalons, with the orphans of ... ...enforce obedience. The priest and the king—that means you, and me, and the Princess my neighbour; and, in a word, the interests of all honest people p... ...ak of my beauty; I may lose every trace of it in six months, like the dear Princess, my neighbour. You are captivated by my wit, my grace. Great Heave... ...ou. Misfor- tune willed that I should be a duchess; I would I were a royal princess, that my offering might be complete. I would be a grisette for you...

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...ey descend from Charles de Valois, Duc d’Angouleme, son of Charles IX. and Marie T ouchet, the male line from whom 4 An Old Maid ended, until proof t... ... with which he took snuff from a gold box adorned with the portrait of the Princess Goritza,—a charming Hungarian, celebrated for her beauty in the la... ...w out his snuff- box with a gesture that was worthy of Mole, looked at the Princess Goritza, raised the cover with dignity, shook, sifted, massed the ... ...ime the cards were dealt he had decorated both nostrils and re- placed the princess in his waistcoat pocket,--always on his left side. A gentleman of ... ...inister by throwing himself into the party which secretly caballed against Bonaparte until Marengo. If it had not been for Kellermann’s charge and Des... ...ne in case the First Consul suc- cumbed. Convinced of the impossibility of Bonaparte’s triumph, du Bousquier staked the greater part of his property o... ...e Austrians. Du Bousquier cursed Kellermann and Desaix; he dared not curse Bonaparte, who might owe him millions. This alternative of millions to be e... ... Seez, once her guardian, and whose heir she was. The family of which Rose-Marie-Victoire Cormon was the present representative had been in earlier da... ... for the strength of its con- struction,—a style of building introduced by Marie de’ 39 Balzac Medici. Though built of granite,—a stone which is hard...

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...her and myself could have a solitary road to traverse between Greenhay and Princess Street, then the termination, on that side, of Manchester. But so ... ...and utterly to defeat, Napoleon in the breach of Acre. But for Sir Sidney, Bonaparte would have overrun Syria, that is certain. What would have follow... ...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... ...oes, have been the Aaron woe that swallowed up all the rest to the unhappy Marie Antoinette. This must have been the sting of death to her maternal he...

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... rattling the dice.” “Ah, that boy will find out some Bavarian or Peruvian princess; he will want a crown and an immense fortune.” “No; these grand lo... ...n without doing so? Elssler was dancing in the ‘Diable Boiteux;’ the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent ring ... ..., to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger. And the Greek princess, — will she be here?” “No, you will be deprived of that pleasure; ... ...advance the interests of their party. One paragraph spoke of the return of Bonaparte and promised an- other letter and further details, on the arrival... ...ly think, then, if Made- moiselle Danglars, instead of being called Claire-Marie-Eugenie, had been named Mademoiselle Chastity-Modesty-Innocence Dangl...

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...at his bill is worth nothing, and prove it if you can, but do not say that Mariette danced badly. The devil! haven’t we all played our little plays; a... ...rritated at Colleville’s tone]. “Monsieur Colleville, let me tell you that Bonaparte may perhaps be styled Em- peror by historians, but it is extremel... ..., my dear fellow.” Colleville [angrily]. “Let me tell you that if Napoleon Bonaparte had studied the letters of his name on the 14th of April, 1814, h... ...ill.” Bixiou. “How do you make that out?” Colleville [solemnly]. “Napoleon Bonaparte.—No, appear not at Elba!” Dutocq. “You’ll lose your place for tal... ...uished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment The Secrets of a Princess Pierrette A Study of Woman Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life 2... ...isseau A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Man of Business Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du Lost Illusions A Disting... ... Cat and Racket Modeste Mignon Thuillier The Middle Classes Thuillier, Marie-Jeanne-Brigitte The Middle Classes Thuillier, Louis-Jerome The Mi...

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...rful elders resist it. That is… unless a brilliant Emperor such as Napoleon Bonaparte: rips the entire legal fabric of his society apart; and rams... ...-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The Bourbon King was ousted, thanks to Bonaparte’s new, more egalitarian legal system; and France finally bec... ... are born in uptown New York to wealthy parents and raised as a spoiled Jewess Princess, and are given by your parents: perfect genes, perfect skin, ... ...ue happiness becomes poisoned and corrupted into luck… into privilege. Into Marie Antoinette whining pettishly about the ungrateful starving peasan... ...ons. If you study history carefully: you will find that the legal equality of Bonaparte’s Civil Code; and the English Parliamentary system of repres... ... people: runs throughout all of Western Civilization. There are reasons why Princess Diana died so tragically, and early. She was trying to get th... ... of being so pure, you are untouchable… That nobody can touch you… the Jewish Princess complex. The entire idea of aristocratic privilege… is basi... ... undetectable to your own senses; as unseen as x-rays X-rays can kill you. Marie curie died from them. Just by slow, steady, systematic exposure…...

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... that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,--a belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange to say, on the day the sun failed him, in 1812, his luck ceased!...

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...ere beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,—a belief in which that man owes p... ...ent colors to know them apart. The first comer, the eldest, was named Paul-Marie, the other Marie-Paul. Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, to whom their danger w... ...n of a mason employed by the Grand Marquis to build his castle!” exclaimed Marie-Paul, “you have let them drag our father to prison—you have believed ... ...lutch his weapon con- vulsively. “You owe your life to that promise,” said Marie-Paul, sol- emnly. “If it is not fulfilled to-night we shall find you ... ...ish to be there; that reason gave him an appearance of zeal in the eyes of Bonaparte; whereas his journey, far from concerning the interests of the St... ...tate gave a clear and suc- cinct account of the critical position in which Bonaparte was about to hold England, by threatening her with invasion from ... ...y thousand francs a year in 1833, when she was twenty. About that time the Princesse de Cadignan, who was seek- ing to marry her son, the Duc de Maufr... ...ughter a duchess, to become a prin- cess later, or whether it was only the princess who coveted for her son the splendid dowry. Did the celebrated Dia... ...s extravagance? In her strong desire not to injure her son’s prospects the princess grew devout, shut the door on her former life, and spent the summe...

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...’, parts from her father. ANGREMONT, Collenot d’, guillotined. ANTOINETTE, Marie, splendour of, applauded, compromised by Diamond Necklace, griefs of,... ..., imprisoned. ELIE, Capt., at Siege of Bastille, after victory. ELIZABETH, Princess, flight to Varennes, August 10th, in Temple Prison, guillotined. E... ...th of. LAMARCHE, guillotined. LAMARCK’S, illness of Mirabeau at. LAMBALLE, Princess de, to England, intrigues for Royalists, at La Force, massacred. L... ...ouille at, troops mutinous at. 20 Index MEUDON tannery. MIOMANDRE de Ste. Marie, Bodyguard, October Fifth, left for dead, revives, rewarded. MIRABEAU... ...embly Commission- ers. NANTES, after King’s flight, massacres at. NAPOLEON Bonaparte (Buonaparte) studying mathematics, pamphlet by, democratic, in Co... ...cred. SUSPECT, Law of the, Chaumette jeered on. SWEDEN, King of, to assist Marie Antoinette, shot by Ankarstrom. SWISS Guards at Brest, prisoners at L...

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... to choose. Shouldn’t you like one of those great Rubenses—the marriage of Marie de Medicis? Just look at it and see how handsome it is.” “Oh, yes; I ... ...o politics, because I was a Bellegarde—the Bellegardes don’t recognize the Bonapartes. I couldn’t go into literature, because I was a dunce. I couldn’... ...xtremely clever; indeed he is very learned. He is writing a history of The Princesses of France Who Never Married.” This was said by Bellegarde with e... ... motive is ambi- tion: if a man can offer her a great position, make her a princess or an ambassadress she may think the compensa- tion sufficient.” “... ... stay away a while, and when you asked me to dinner say I was going to the Princess Borealska’s. But I have not any pride where my pleasure is concern... ...a shake to bring down a shower of the finest. At any rate, I prefer clever Bonapartes to stupid Bourbons.” “Oh, I see; you want to go to court,” said ...

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...ooms. The suite is the one which belonged to my beloved grand- mother, the Princess de Vauremont, to whom I owe some sort of a fortune which no one ha... ...rm with the heat which she kept up there. How comes it that Armande-Louise-Marie de Chaulieu must be like some peasant girl, who sleeps in her mother’... ... mother’s bed the very morrow of her death? For to me it was as though the Princess, who died in 1817, had passed away but yesterday. I saw many thing... ...e something of the cause of my tears. He told me that the furniture of the Princess had been left to me in her will and that my father had allowed all... ...ing. M. de l’Estorade was unable to save his only son from the clutches of Bonaparte; after successfully eluding the conscrip- tion, he was forced to ... ...ice by which the nobles of Provence elude the infamous Civil Code of M. de Bonaparte, a code which will drive as many girls of good family into conven... ...and easy, shaded with ever- green trees. This century will not see another Bonaparte; and my children, if I have any, will not be rent from me. They w... ...reat you to some regal scowls; but you must tell him that you are loved by Marie Heredia, and that Marie can marry none but a Duc de Soria. This will ... ...source, and he will gladly hand over to you my spoils. You will then marry Marie. The secret of the mutual love against which you fought was no secret...

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...hich the old Marquis lived; or, in the style of ancient documents, Charles Marie Victor Ange Carol, Mar- quis d’Esgrignon. It was only an ordinary hou... ... the d’Esgrignons, made proposals in form through Maitre Chesnel for Mlle. Marie Armande Clair d’Esgrignon. She declined to hear the notary. “You must... ... how old I was, I would run away and call from a distance, ‘Eleven!’ Every princess and fairy of my visions, as I read the Arabian Nights, looked and ... ...y eyes in the shape of some famous woman of old times; she is Agnes Sorel, Marie T ouchet, Gabrielle; and I lend her all the love that was lost in her... ...enacle. There His Majesty, Emperor and King, was never anything but “M. de Bonaparte”; there “the King” meant Louis XVIII., then at Mittau; there the ... ...esnel do when the old Marquis said, with a lordly gesture, “God swept away Bonaparte with his armies, his new great vassals, his crowned kings, and hi... ...law for special cases. We could not keep the provost’s courts, which M. De Bonaparte used to call commissions militaires.” “Well, well; what are we to... ...of the d’Uxelles; her father-in-law was still alive; she was not to be the Princesse de Cadignan for 53 Balzac some years to come. A friend of the Du... ...de Pamiers in 1778, after a certain journey made by a celebrated Hungarian princess. And Chesnel also wrote. The fond flat- tery to which the unhappy ...

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... me; and so thank Heaven for French. Vive la France! Vive l’Empereur! Vive Bonaparte!” “O Rebecca, Rebecca, for shame!” cried Miss Sedley; for this wa... ...ecca had as yet uttered; and in those days, in England, to say, “Long live Bonaparte!” was as much as to say, “Long live Lucifer!” “How can you— how d... ...d was as tall as a grenadier, and had been up to this time an irresistible princess, had no will or strength like that of her little apprentice, and i... ...mical, good-humoured air, “I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights. Do you pu... ...ages, and hanging on to the skirts of history. When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where they had ... ...on—rattling away as no other man in the world surely could. “Why the Black Princess, though she has only just left school, must be two or three and tw... ...n. Lady Mary Caerlyon was brought up at a Parisian convent; the Dauphiness Marie Antoinette was her godmother. In the pride of her beauty she had been... ... Some few still exist who have beheld Frederick the Great, Doctor Johnson, Marie Antoinette, &c.—be it our reasonable boast to our children, that we s...

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...ud- der only to think of it. Can the Colonel rise from the dead, monsieur? Bonaparte sent an aide-de-camp to inquire for me on his death, and to this ... ...um The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bonaparte, Napoleon The Vendetta The Gondreville Mystery Domestic Pea... ...asses Ferraud, Comtesse The Government Clerks Godeschal, Francois-Claude-Marie A Bachelor’s Establishment A Start in Life The Commission in Lu... ...untry Parson The Magic Skin The Gondreville Mystery The Secrets of a Princess Cousin Betty Vergniaud, Louis The Vendetta To return to the El...

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...r him, and spent her savings in doing so. Philippe was one of the faithful Bonapartes of the cafe Lemblin, that constitutional Boeotia; he acquired th... ... it.” Florentine happened that night to have a friend with her,— a certain Marie Godeschal, beautiful as an angel, cold as a danseuse, and a pupil of ... ...o make her first appearance at the Panorama-Dramatique un- der the name of Mariette, based her hopes on the protection and influence of a first gentle... ...he introduction. The ambitious girl did, in the end, make her pseudonym of Mariette famous; and the motive of her ambition, it must be said, was prais... ...acy Lost Illusions A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Secrets of a Princess The Government Clerks Pierrette A Study of Woman Scenes from a... ...n Chrestien, Michel A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Secrets of a Princess Claparon, Charles Cesar Birotteau Melmoth Reconciled The Firm o... ...eatrix Giraud, Leon A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Secrets of a Princess The Unconscious Humorists Giroudeau A Distinguished Provincial a...

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...gh Britons — of whom, I dare say, he made the same complaint as Napoleon Bonaparte the great French General did, eigh teen hundred years afterwards... ... Maud the Good, the daughter of the King of Scotland. Al though this good Princess did not love the King, she was so affected by the representations ... ...orn the veil of a nun, she could not lawfully be married—against which the Princess stated that her aunt, with whom she had lived in her youth, had in... ...y, fast, from the sink ing ship, the Prince heard the voice of his sister Marie, the Countess of Perche, calling for help. A Child’s Histroy of Engl... .... He then sailed away again with his mother, sister, wife, and the captive princess; and soon arrived before the town of Acre, which the French King w...

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...ption; but there had been a pause at night, and at two o’clock, poor Queen Marie Antoinette, spent with horror and fatigue, at last went to bed, advis... ...was Helen Kottenner, the lady who had the charge of her little daugh- ter, Princess Elizabeth, and to her she confided her desire that the crown might... ...hose family it was probably needful to propitiate. She took off the little princess Elizabeth’s mourning for her father and dressed her in red and gol... ...e of her son, the doors were opened, and all the train entered, the little princess being lifted up to stand by the organ, lest she should be hurt in ... ...olute man, as noted for his piety and tenderness to the sick in the infir- maries as for his unflinching courage. When he learnt the intentions of the... ...iumph of the British flag. Let us think of all that was at stake. Napoleon Bonaparte was climbing to power in France, by directing her successful arms... ...to own the true blessings of suffering. Here Elizabeth met the like-minded Marie de Sombreuil, who had clung to her father, Charles Viscount de Sombre...

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...d just taken place. Public affairs were doing well, the Funds had gone up. Bonaparte was off to fight the battle of Marengo. ‘It is unfortunate, monsi... ...from Flushing, whither I have sent the few things I am taking out to them. Bonaparte has won the battle of Marengo, peace will be signed, I may safely... ...eniac, well- known for his participation in the expedition to Quiberon. 6. Marie-Anne Cabot, called Lajeunesse, former hunts- man to the Sieur Carol o... ...t the frame of which she supported herself. “In the name of Louis XVI. and Marie-Antoinette whom I see on their scaffold, in the name of Madame Elisab... ...uished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment The Secrets of a Princess 191 Balzac The Government Clerks Pierrette A Study of Woman... ...chon narrated the following: Another Study of Woman La Grande Breteche Bonaparte, Napoleon The Vendetta The Gondreville Mystery Colonel Chab... ...esse (afterwards Marquise de) The Gondreville Mystery The Secrets of a Princess The Member for Arcis Desplein The Atheist’s Mass Cousin Pons... ...ed Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Secrets of a Princess A Daughter of Eve Letters of T wo Brides The Muse of the Dep...

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... in religion he was indifferent; he was as much or as little of a bigot as Bonaparte was a member of the Mountain; yet his vertebral column bent with ... ...e, and made her your Em- press; the other he would never receive at court, princess though she was. The sans-culotte of 1793 takes the Iron Crown in 1... ...my voice, he consults me in everything.’ The Abbe de Vermont felt thus for Marie-Antoinette.” “He led her to the scaffold.” “He did not love the Queen... ...vincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Thirteen Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du T wo Poets A Distinguish... ...rs of T wo Brides The Ball at Sceaux Modeste Mignon The Secrets of a Princess The Gondreville Mystery A Daughter of Eve Metivier The Gover... ...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Another Study of Woman The Secrets of a Princess A Man of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department ...

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...ch the curious observer may perhaps detect in the conversation of Napoleon Bonaparte. I must do the King the justice to say that it was I, and not he,... ...pulent, rather sleepy Prince. This Puissant Prince was married to a lovely Princess whose name was Fair Freedom. She had brought him a large for tune... ...dings, in the midst of hospitals, churchyards, workhouses, schools, infir maries, refuges, dwellings, provision shops nurseries, sick beds, every st...

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...vidently unfriendly now became gentle and af- fectionate. The angry eldest princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, had co... ...ld not refrain from weeping at these words. Touched that this statu- esque princess could so change, Pierre took her hand and begged her forgiveness, ... ...begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and be- gan knitting a striped scarf f... ...ncess Mary’s room. 24 War and Peace – Book Three “Y ou know they’ve come, Marie?” said the little princess, waddling in, and sinking heavily into an ... ...se and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “V oila Marie!” Princess Mary saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince V... ...ly smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression “Marie” produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle Bourienne, with h... ...e awards, about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the Essen... ...d to 62 War and Peace – Book Three advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. The coun- cil of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanie... ...e ad- jacent locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. Dolgorukov, one of ...

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... rien (To-day his Majesty will do nothing). (Memoires sur la Vie privee de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan (Paris, 1826), i. 12). He lives and lin... ...-de-Boeuf; so that ‘more than fifty fall sick, and ten die. ’ Mesdames the Princesses alone wait at the loathsome sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. ... ... alone wait at the loathsome sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. The three Princesses, Graille, Chiffe, Coche (Rag, Snip, Pig, as he was wont to name ... ...as wont to name them), are assiduous there; when all have fled. The fourth Princess Loque (Dud), as we guess, is al- ready in the Nunnery, and can onl... ...(recueillement),’ and said little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better h... ...h- ematics, a dusky-complexioned taciturn Boy, under the name of: Napoleon Bonaparte!—With fifty years of effort, and one final dead-lift struggle, th... ...s no part, she resigns herself to a day she hoped never to have seen. Poor Marie Antoinette; with thy quick noble instincts; vehement glancings, visio...

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........................................................ 471 Chapter 3.4.VII. Marie-Antoinette. ............................................................ ... rien (To-day his Majesty will do nothing). (Memoires sur la Vie privee de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan (Paris, 1826), i. 12). He lives and lin... ...-de-Boeuf; so that ‘more than fifty fall sick, and ten die. ’ Mesdames the Princesses alone wait at the loath- some sick-bed; impelled by filial piety... ...lone wait at the loath- some sick-bed; impelled by filial piety. The three Princesses, Graille, Chiffe, Coche (Rag, Snip, Pig, as he was wont to name ... ...(recueillement),’ and said little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better h... ...s said, Benevolence has now begun reigning. In her Duchess de Polignac, in Princess de Lamballe, she enjoys something al- most like friendship; now to... ...hematics, a dusky-complexioned taciturn Boy, under the name of: Napo- leon Bonaparte!—With fifty years of effort, and one final dead- lift struggle, t... ...embly Commission- ers. NANTES, after King’s flight, massacres at. NAPOLEON Bonaparte (Buonaparte) studying mathematics, pamphlet by, democratic, in Co...

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...hereas, in 1805, he thought himself uncommonly lucky when he married Mlle. Marie- Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, the daughter of a noble long relegated... ... not have made a delightful Master of Requests, like many another, but the Princess was of the opinion that her secretary was better placed with her t... ...he part that M. du Chatelet once had played in the history of the Imperial Princess, his reputation for success with women, the strange story of his t... ...s for music, no good without the music, and my long Epistle to a Sister of Bonaparte (ungrateful that he was), will not hand down my name to posterity... ...f fact, and added that the poems had been written by a Royalist brother of Marie-Joseph Chenier, the Revolutionary leader. All Angouleme, except Mme. ... ...hatelet, “go and manage it somehow.” “Nothing easier,” said the Baron. The Princess’ private secretary, being accustomed to petty manoeuvres of this k... ...vincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Thirteen Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du A Distinguished Provincial...

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...twenty-franc pieces that I seem to see yet. The dates had been erased, and Bonaparte’s head simpered upon them. After I had put back the purse in my p... ...usband again. Her greatest trouble was about her daughter’s education; the Princess Borghese was her Pauline’s godmother; and Pauline must not be unwo... ...er a Mlle. O’Flaharty?” “Y es,” said Raphael mechanically enough; “Barbara Marie.” “Have you your certificate of birth about you,” Cardot went on, “an... ...nt. I have been looking in vain for the heirs and assigns of Mlle. Barbara Marie O’Flaharty for a fortnight past, when yesterday at dinner—” Just then... ...o another, as she diverted herself with the awkward way in which a Russian princess wore her bonnet, or over the utter failure of a bonnet with which ... ...uished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment The Secrets of a Princess The Government Clerks Pierrette A Study of Woman Scenes fr...

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...t Czarina was no longer Elizabeth Petrowna, it was Catharine the Second; a princess who did not often err so injuriously (injuriously for herself as m... ... sole brother of Louis Quatorze. He married for his first wife our English princess Henrietta, the sister of Charles II., (and through her daughter, b... ...herwise on bad terms with her, married for his second wife a coarse German princess, homely in every sense, and a singular contrast to the elegant cre... ...nformed the French army of Egypt that Massena and others had lost all that Bonaparte had won in 1796. But it is a strange illustration of human blindn... ...rybody knows the fatal pollution of the marriage pomps on the reception of Marie Antoinette in Paris; the numbers who perished are still spoken of obs... ...n the same great empires, in the persons of Napoleon and the Arch- duchess Marie Louisa, was overshadowed by the same un- happy omens, and, as we all ...

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...s is what you wanted. Well then, gloat over it! Gloat over it!” After that Princess Mary did not see her father for a whole week. He was ill and did n... ...t see her father for a whole week. He was ill and did not leave his study. Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this ill- ness the old pr... ...e 9 Tolstoy me quarrel with him, but you see I need neither her nor you!” Princess Mary spent half of every day with little Nicholas, watching his le... ...g- ing. Since the year 1805 we had made peace and had again quarreled with Bonaparte and had made constitutions and un- made them again, but the salon... ...her five years before. At Anna Pavlovna’s they talked with per- plexity of Bonaparte’s successes just as before and saw in them and in the subservienc... .... But when Napoleon asked him whether the Russians thought they would beat Bonaparte or not, Lavrushka screwed up his eyes and considered. In this que... ...Is it not all the same?” she thought, and did not reply. “Y ou know, chere Marie,” said Mademoiselle Bourienne, “that we are in danger—are surrounded ... ...o stay here,” said Mademoiselle Bourienne. “Because, you will agree, chere Marie, to fall into the hands of the soldiers or of riotous peasants would ...

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...le person who is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess Mary Bolkonskaya.” Prince V asili did not reply, though, with the ... ...sently he added: “That’s what we fa- thers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours rich?” “Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in t... ... a vexa- tious duty and did not return to her the whole evening. The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a gold-embroidered velvet bag... ...etly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his pre... ...d was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. The story was very pretty and inter... ...o the conversation, “almost all the aristoc- racy has already gone over to Bonaparte’s side.” “It is the Buonapartists who say that,” replied the vico... ...rom the corridor, went into Princess Mary’s room. “Y ou know they’ve come, Marie?” said the little prin- cess, waddling in, and sinking heavily into a... ...se and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “V oila Marie!” Princess Mary saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince V... ...ly smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression “Marie” produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle Bourienne, with h...

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...r from my cousin, Marshal Manasseh: that Murillo was pawned to my uncle by Marie Antoinette before the flight to V arennes—the poor lady could not red... ...er costume. She had three necklaces on, each of which would have dowered a Princess—her fingers glistened with rings to their rosy tips, and priceless... ...al festival. I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pauline Bonaparte and Madame de Stael; Marshal Soult went down a couple of sets wit... ...ain which was the reward of the victor. He raised his visor as the smiling princess guerdoned him—raised it, and gave ONE sad look towards the Lady Fa... ... the groves, and murmured frivolous talk in the ears of high-bred beauty. “Marie, my beloved,” said the ruler of France, taking out his watch, “’tis t... ...r of America should be here.” “Your Majesty should know the time,” replied Marie Antoinette, archly, and in an Austrian accent; “is not my Royal Louis... ...s feather, which had been given him out of the head-dress of the beautiful Princess of Lamballe. His nose, from which hung the ornament from which his... ...p of the Pretender Henri,”—”Chicken-pox raging in the Forts of the Traitor Bonaparte,”—might be true, what was his surprise to hear the report of a gu...

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...ia, and having, as his historian tells us, ten- derly embraced the Empress Marie Louise—who regarded him as her husband, though he had left another wi... ...e walls, sounds, and smell, and the same timid faces, only somewhat older. Princess Mary was still the same timid, plain maiden getting on in years, u... ...ciously lifted the upper lip of his pretty little mouth just as the little princess used to do. He alone did not obey the law of immuta- bility in the... ...ged the old prince, Madmoiselle Bourienne, and the architect; to the other Princess Mary, Dessalles, little Nicholas, and all the old nurses and maids... ...y. They said that undoubtedly war, particu- larly against such a genius as Bonaparte (they called him Bonaparte now), needs most deeply devised plans ... ...minded men. Bagration was the best, Napoleon himself admitted that. And of Bonaparte him- self! I remember his limited, self-satisfied face on the fie...