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...Excerpt: The Comte De Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the royalist leaders during this stormy period of modern history, he was wont...

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... DE FONTAINE, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La V endee ag... ...the King’s memory as one of the loyal servants of the Crown. At the second restoration the Count was one of those spe- cial envoys who were sent throu... ...st son found a high and fixed position as a lawyer. The second, before the restoration a mere captain, was appointed to the command of a legion on the... ...an his rival, acted in a contrary direction. The last head of the House of Bourbon was just as eager to satisfy the third estate and the creations of ...

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...a- liers, among whom were doubtless some who were Valois as Louis XIV. was Bourbon, knew so little of one another that it was not advisable to speak t... ...sable to speak to one about the others. They were all willing to leave the Bourbons in tranquil possession of the throne of France; for it was too pla... ...had amassed ten thousand and some odd hundred francs. On the return of the Bourbons, one of his old friends, the Marquis de Pombreton, formerly lieute... ...sting this fragment of his past opulence. Con- fiding in the future of the Restoration, he finally placed his money on the Grand-Livre at the moment w... ... of the rebuffs he received there; but when, after the first return of the Bourbons, he was still ex- cluded from the prefecture, that mortification i... ...con, the invisible manipulator of elec- tions, and did immense harm to the Restoration by the clev- erness of his underhand proceedings and the perfid... ...t Republic had won the day from Valiant Chivalry, and that, too, under the Restoration! Form triumphed; mind was vanquished by matter, diplomacy by in... ...er had authorized her to com- mit many wrongs to please her husband. These restorations destroyed all the venerable dignity, cor- diality, and patriar... ...s not known whether the fervor of his zeal conquered the reluctance of the Bourbon, who abandoned his fine kingdom of France without carrying away wit...

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...e one. He may have nosed the fact that I am in the secrets of the house of Bourbon.” “You?” “I,” replied Malin. “Have you forgotten Favras?” The words... ...e, so as to discover more about it.” “As to rights,” said the notary, “the Bourbons have much more right to conceive, plan, and execute a scheme again... ... said Malin, “to make Bonaparte fling the head of the Duc d’Enghien at the Bourbons, just as the Convention flung the head of Louis XVI. at the kings,... ... Council of State at the critical moment and direct its action towards the restoration of the Bourbons.” 28 An Historical Mystery “Wait,” said the no... ...t the critical moment and direct its action towards the restoration of the Bourbons.” 28 An Historical Mystery “Wait,” said the notary. “Impossible! ... ...bring- ing back those who would require you to give up Gondreville! If the Bourbons were not imbeciles they would pass a sponge over all we have done.... ...lution pass above their heads; who came once more to the surface under the Restoration, rich with their hidden savings, proud of their discreet attach... ...othing from his dignity. This abbe, who became bishop of T royes after the Restoration, had long made a study of young people and fully understood the... ...ings had hap- pened to ameliorate that life within the last six years. The restoration of Catholic worship allowed the faithful to fulfil their religi...

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...se customers were the most active and devoted 23 Balzac emissaries of the Bourbons, and where the correspondence between Paris and the West secretly ... ...buted his success to his intelligence and his integrity. * * * The Restoration made Cesar a personage, and the turmoil of political crises nat... ...of which, as they knew, business affairs stood much in need. At the second Restoration the royal government was obliged to remodel the municipality of... ...y came up, and dwelt upon his wound at Saint-Roch, his at- tachment to the Bourbons, and the respect which he en- joyed. The government, wishing on th... ...of the Legion of honor, and on the other to win adherents and rally to the Bourbons the various trades and men of arts and sciences, included Birottea... ... He played low during the cam- paign of the allied armies, and high on the restoration of the Bourbons. Two months after the return of Louis XVIII., M... ...ng the cam- paign of the allied armies, and high on the restoration of the Bourbons. Two months after the return of Louis XVIII., Madame Roguin was wo... ...ed that an auditor of the Council of State, overtaken by the return of the Bourbons and anxious to stand well at court, had gone to Germany and bought... ...s Lupeaulx to Germany during the Hundred Days, and came back at the second Restoration, having done more to in- crease his means of making a fortune t...

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...le. In this particular, then, I may be said to enjoy a precedency over the Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four different states of ... ...s droits. In other words, all at the right end of the piece became devoted Bourbonists, devoutly believing that princes, who were daily mentioned with... ...riage, having been born in the year 1810. Both the parents died before the Restoration, leaving the little girl to the care of her pious grandmother, ... ...and to sigh, in common with so many others, for le bon vieux temps. At the Restoration, there was some difficulty in establishing the right of the de ... ...ccompany that princess to Dieppe, to come back to her hotel, in the rue de Bourbon, about the last of October. Here, then, were we doomed to three mon... ...that had recently occurred in France, and which still troubled Europe. The Bourbons were again dethroned, as it was termed, and another Bourbon seated... ...as termed, and another Bourbon seated in their place. It would seem il y a Bourbon et Bourbon. The result has since shown that “what is bred in the bo... ...ball. In this I was mistaken, the next day bringing about a release, and a restoration to my proper place in society. The very morning after I was aga... ...chiefs have their revolutions, as well as states. I was now under my first restoration, and perfectly happy; but, 125 James Fenimore Cooper being Fre...

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...rther still. The abbey has gone the way of most abbeys; but the place is a restoration as well as a ruin, inasmuch as the sisters of the Sacred Heart ... ...es it to-day, one speaks of a monument unspar- ingly restored. The work of restoration has been as inge- nious as it is profuse, but it rather chills ... ...back (it is the only aspect I had seen repro- duced) exhibits the marks of restoration with the great- est assurance. The long facade, consisting only... ...nt setting to the entrance-front of the palace,—the wing of Louis XII. The restoration here has been lavish; but it was perhaps but an inevitable reac... ...n from neglected windows. They show you two or three furnished rooms, with Bourbon portraits, hideous tapestries from the ladies of France, a collecti... ...d to his so-called subjects, in which he waves aloft the white flag of the Bourbons. This amazing epistle, which is virtually an invitation to the Fre... ...ise. They had acquired this famous property by pur- chase (from one of the Bourbons; for Chenonceaux, for two centuries after the death of Catherine d... ... after having unsuccessfully raised the standard of revolt (for the exiled Bourbons), in the legitimist Bretagne, and being “wanted,” as the phrase is... ...e, who were arrested in 1821 as conspirators against the Government of the Bourbons, and executed, amid gen- eral indignation, in Paris in the followi...

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... people in those days! As well might he have begged them to bring back the Bourbons. The Girondist minister, who was then contending against Robespier... ...’s farewell at Fontainebleau, raved at the sight, and refused to serve the Bourbons. When he re- turned to his mother, in July, 1814, he found her rui... ...y-one, he exaggerated them, vowed in good ear- nest a mortal enmity to the Bourbons, never reported himself at the War department, and even refused op... ...el. “My son has just got an appointment through the Duc de Navarreins. The Bourbons are very good to those who are sincere in rallying to them. Y our ... ...public, with a future full of promise. This scheme of Liberalism under the Restoration distinctly proves that the interests of the party were purely s... ... fall of the Emperor, the duplicity of the Liberals, and the rancor of the Bourbons against the Bonapartists. During the week at Havre, a week which w... ...f his or her own home, it was likely to happen, and did hap- pen under the Restoration in 1816 when the war was over, that many of the young men of th... ...ame state as when she had left Issoudun. Monarchy, Revolution, Empire, and Restoration, which respected little, had certainly respected this room wher... ...ling the services of the fa- ther, and the neglect shown to them under the Restoration. “Such injustice, monseigneur,” said the lawyer, “is a last- in...

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... large section of the new society which was destined to be known after the Restoration as the Liberal party; and these, with du Croisier as their unac... ...rignon’s fortunes had not im- proved in spite of the changes worked by the Restoration in the condition of emigres. Of all the nobles hardly hit by Re... ...rship which still lingered on in spite of legislation. The miracles of the Restoration of 1814, the still greater miracle of Napoleon’s return in 1815... ...cle of Napoleon’s return in 1815, the portents of a sec- ond flight of the Bourbons, and a second reinstatement (that almost fabulous phase of contemp... ...iquities been kept up with great spirit during the first four years of the Restoration. The salon du Croisier and the salon d’Esgrignon, having measur... ... from the brilliant eyes. The Mar- quis had the Conde nose and the lovable Bourbon mouth, from which, as they used to say of the Comte d’Artois, only ... ...e. So he launched out into the world of pleasure. Introduced at the Elyess-Bourbon, at the Duchesse d’Angouleme’s, at the Pavillon Marsan, he met on a... ...te de Montcornet, one of those of Napoleon’s generals who went over to the Bourbons. The Vidame held that a dinner-party of more than six persons was ... ...time the younger men were full of Royalist zeal against the enemies of the Bourbons. The most insignificant deputy official was dreaming of conducting...

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...feigned surprise. “She must have rejoiced over the victory of the House of Bourbon.” “I told them the reason of the mass; they are always a little bit... ...ace it turns on the world, and the soul informs the body. The women of the Restoration displayed neither the proud disregard of public opinion shown b... ...ginning of that ephemeral life led by the Faubourg Saint-Germain under the Restoration, to which, if there is any truth in the above reflections, they... ...ais (for that was her name) had been married for about four years when the Restoration was finally consummated, which is to say, in 1816. By that time... ...uite out of the world; but after the invasion of France, the return of the Bourbons seemed to every Royalist mind the only pos- sible way of putting a... ...ew months before the death of the Duke his father. After the return of the Bourbons, the families resumed their rank, offices, and dignity at Court; o... ...he real beginning of that unheard-of splendour which the Government of the Restoration carried too far. At that time the Duchess, whether for reasons ... ...es in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; it reached the T uileries and the Elysee-Bourbon; it was the sen- sation of the day, the matter of all the talk from... ... when she under- stands how to offer herself.” That evening, at the Elysee-Bourbon, the Duc de Navarreins, M. de Pamiers, M. de Marsay, M. de Grandlie...

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...family, now extinct, of Isle-Adam, and also as the former residence of the Bourbon- Contis. Isle-Adam is a little town flanked by two large villages, ... ...as supposed to have reason to complain of Napoleon. Consequently, when the Bourbons returned, Louis XVIII., whom Monsieur de Serizy held to be his leg... ...o to Ghent. He informed Napoleon that he remained faithful to the house of Bourbon; would not 18 A Start in Life accept his peerage during the Hundre... ...chase of the farm, Monsieur de Serizy also intended to examine the work of restoration and the effect of the new furniture. He intended all this to be... ...ultan makes pachas, and that my friend Tebelen (for we were as friendly as Bourbons) was in rebellion against the Padishah! You know, or you don’t kno... ...ur peace with the King of France; the Czerni-Georges ought not to snub the Bourbons. I have nothing to wish for you, my dear Monsieur Schinner; your f...

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...was then making his last efforts. My father, who foresaw the return of the Bourbons, had come to Paris with my mother to advise my brother, who was em... ...inspired by the enthusiasm felt throughout old France at the return of the Bourbons. T ouraine was aroused for its legitimate princes; the town it- se... ...tions of “Long live the Duc d’Angouleme! Long live the King! Long live the Bourbons!” The ball was an out- burst of pent-up enthusiasm, where each man... ...r leave Clochegourde and see no company. Until now their attachment to the Bourbons explained this retire- ment, but the return of the king has not ch... ... receive me as a guest. My father had formerly done devoted service to the Bourbons, and had played an important and perilous, though 34 The Lily of ... ...D. de Chessel, and that made him Monsieur 39 Balzac de Chessel. Under the Restoration he entailed an estate with the title of count in virtue of lett... ... courage and my faculties? I did not then think of the consequences of the Restoration either for me or for others. On Sunday morning, from the privat... ...e,” I said in a low voice to the countess. The transformation scene of the Restoration was carried through with a rapidity which bewildered the genera... ...gine the real difficulties which hindered her from taking advantage of the Restoration and forced her to continue a life of solitude. Though families ...

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...illa, a cannoneer, a common solder, a leader; hands still white though the Bourbons of the Elder branch were again in exile. Looking at those hands at... ...on that he should go to Paris and claim his recompense from the triumphant Bourbons, the old sister, so saving and miserly for the household, cried ou... ...nto the woods with a band of Chouans, who continued armed until the second restoration of the Bourbons. Guerande still trea- sures the memory of that ... ...a band of Chouans, who continued armed until the second restoration of the Bourbons. Guerande still trea- sures the memory of that siege. We must admi... ...re the fortunes of the dispossessed Elder branch. The future of the exiled Bourbons, that of the Catholic religion, the influence of political innovat... ... weakness and somnolence of the old man. The fresh defeat and exile of the Bourbons, as miraculously driven out as miraculously re-established, were t... ...ee years, from 1828 to 1831, Beatrix, while enjoying the last fetes of the Restoration, mak- ing the round of the salons, going to court, taking part ... ...not being able, during its unhoped-for triumph in the fifteen years of the Restoration to reconstruct itself, was about to go to pieces, bit by bit, u... ...deed, they could ever be got to believe it. After this poem of our pacific Restoration had been sung, and the contracts and leases signed, we left tha...

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...e is at endless pains to establish his credit as a staunch upholder of the Bourbons, and has tried already to gain admittance into my set. When his wi... ...dents who lived in the Latin Quar- ter during the last twelve years of the Restoration and did not frequent that temple sacred to hunger and impecunio... ... a Potemkin to Mme. de Stael for twenty years, and now was at war with the Bourbons, as he had been at war with Napoleon. He was destined to win his c... ...we a new and original literature to the Peace and the Resto- ration of the Bourbons, for you are writing for a Right Cen- tre paper. “Scoff at Founder... ...mas in a score of years—the Revolution, the Directory, the Empire, and the Restoration?’ With that, wallow in dithyramb and eulogy, and the second edi... ... name for the type of courtiers who deny their benefactor and rally to the Bourbons. When I have done with him, I am going to Mme. de Montcornet’s.” L... ...be rendered to the Court. The Liberals will never make a count of you. The Restoration will get the better of the press, you see, in the long run, and... ...em. No sign of the times more plainly discovered the helotism to which the Restoration had condemned the young man- hood of the epoch. The younger men... ...de of the Government,” said Leon Giraud. “The Gov- ernment, the Court, the Bourbons, the Absolutist Party, or to sum up in the general expression, the...

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...ent head of the house, many favors in the finan- cial operations under the Restoration, obtained for him also the confidence of the old /noblesse/, wh... ...rticular period there was much talk of attempts by the elder branch of the Bourbons to recover the throne, and Godefroid suspected some conspiracy. Wh... ...od and Company, which made enormous profits from the first loans under the Restoration. His daughter, to whom he subsequently gave a million in dowry,... ...as therefore received with a species of reverence in a city devoted to the Bourbons, where the cruellest deeds of the Chouannerie were accepted as le-... ...e piety. This young girl, like her mother, was fanatically attached to the Bourbons; she was therefore a bitter enemy to the Revo- lution, and regarde... ... to the Vendeans, Chouans, and all those who took up arms for the house of Bourbon, was afterwards continued judicially under the Empire against all r... ...d social existence.” “When did that happen?” asked Godefroid. “Why, at the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814. The Marquis du Vissard, eldest brothe... ...“I am a baron, and so is my grandfather; he was attorney-general under the Restoration.” “You blush, young man; there’s no need to blush for being a p...

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...t do they know about governing?” “I’m always afraid they’ll treat with the Bourbons,” said Hulot. “Thunder! if they did that a pretty pass we should b... ...urope. Who else should win over kings and cabinets and armies to serve the Bourbon cause and hurl them at that Republic which threatens monarchies and... ...y operations had been decided on, the Royalists drank to the health of the Bourbons. It was at that moment that the shot which killed Merle was heard,... ...ademoiselle de V erneuil’s thoughts reverted almost tenderly to the exiled Bourbon family. These recollections awakened those of her past life. Her me... ...ou vigorously, and you will, I hope, do me the justice to believe that the restoration of our altars in France and that of the king upon the throne of... ...e Catholic armies of Brit- tany. I charge you, in case you live to see the Restoration, not to forget this honorable man nor the Baron du Guenic. Ther... ...nothing was changed. The country be- longed as it ever did to the house of Bourbon. The royalists were the lords of the soil as completely as they wer...

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... Perhaps it may be well to explain that Mademoiselle was Anne Genevieve de Bourbon, daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, by his first wife, the heires... ...hter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, by his first wife, the heiress of the old Bourbon branch of Montpensier. She was the greatest heiress in France, and ... ... begun a war on her account; this was her lovely daughter, Mademoiselle de Bourbon, and her sons, the brave Duke of Enghien, with his deformed brother... ...dame,’ and I looked up into the beautiful countenance of Anne Genevieve de Bourbon, her blue eyes shining on me with the sweetest expression. ‘Madame,... ...’ she repeated. ‘What is the use of wearing haircloth when the fire of the Bourbons is in one’s blood, and one has a face that all the world runs afte... ...ould hear the Vivas! With which the people greeted them, as the promise of restoration was made known. At eleven at night there was a fresh outcry, bu...

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...most fanatical attachment to Napoleon forbade his taking service under the Bourbons after the first abdication. In fact, his devotion in 1815 was such... ... man enamoured of the constitutional system—Colonel Giguet was, during the Restoration, the natural president of the governing committee of Arcis, whi... ... this reason: the Giguets could not expect any government favors under the Restoration. Even if Simon had not been the son of an ardent Bonapartist, h... ...ation, the Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne used all the influence the return of the Bourbons gave her to arrange things as she wished in the department of the ... ...d justice of the peace in Arcis during the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration. Achille Pigoult, thirty-two years of age, had been eighteen ye... ...an about forty years of age, who had spent six years of his life under the Restoration in be- coming a substitute only to be neglected and left in Arc... ... saying of Louis XVIII.: “Union and Oblivion.” On the second return of the Bourbons, Grevin’s father-in- law, old Doctor Varlet, died at the age of se... ...et with from the different ministers when he asked for an office under the Bourbons; for, in spite of his connections, his birth, and his dangerous ap... ...y, still further increased by his person- ally superior bearing. His long, Bourbonine face was framed by whiskers and a beard, carefully kept, elegant...

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...uality Prince d’Orleans. Behold these men, says the Gironde; with a whilom Bourbon Prince among them: they are creatures of the d’Orleans Faction; the... ...long ago, from principle and also from jesuit- ism, that the whole race of Bourbons should be marched forth from the soil of France; this Prince Egali... ...d the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed it- self; spreads, rustling with Bourbon banners, over the face of the South. Ashes and embers of confused G... ... Epos of Universal History itself. Directorates, Consulates, Emperorships, Restorations, Citizen-Kingships succeed this Business in due series, in due...

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... the Prince de Polignac was forcing on between liberalism and the house of Bourbon, and he augured ill of it; in fact, the duke was one of the boldest... ...for the foundations also came from the forest; other- wise the cost of the restorations would have been ruinous. The chief expenses had been those of ... ...the law of primogeniture,—the lasting honor of the only bold statesman the Restoration has produced, namely, the Comte de Peyronnet. T o reconstitute ... ...—such were the four cardinal points of the internal policy of the house of Bourbon. Well, twenty years from now all France will have recognized the ne... ...n, and supplies the great productions necessary to the State. The house of Bourbon, feeling that it was slipping to the third rank in Europe, by reaso...

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...of the King and Madame de Montespan, had married Monsieur le Duc (Louis de Bourbon, eldest son of the Prince de Conde). For some time past Madame de M... ... course open, she feigned to be ill, and had herself sent to the waters of Bourbon. She wrote to her father, the Duc de Luynes, to meet her there, and... ...e de Verrue; uncle of her husband. As soon as the Duc de Luynes arrived at Bourbon, and became acquainted 151 Saint-Simon with the danger which threa... ...ning, Madame de Montespan, aged sixty, died very suddenly at the waters of Bourbon. Her death made much stir, although she had long retired from the C... ...it on the Duchesse de Bourgogne. The last time Madame de Montespan went to Bourbon she paid all her charitable pensions and gratuities two years in ad... ...ome the advocate of our cause, and finished by saying that he regarded our restoration as an act of justice impor- tant to the state; that he knew I w...