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...ir enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Br... ... had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that sh... ...e had already made up her mind to accept this strange, arranged marriage. To be the wife of Gavin French, whom she had loved secretly from the tende... ...listening in her lovely eyes. ‘So you too knew, Rosita, about this plan to marry me off to Gavin French. Why was I the last one to be told and, for ... ...ll your uncle you will marry Gavin.’  Rosita had always known about Helen’s love for Gavin French. There was nothing about the girl that she ... ...he imagination. ‘Helen, let me introduce you to the Comte and Comtesse de Colbert, of the French Consulate in Mirapore,’ said Gavin, who seemed amus... ...lica of the bullfighter’s costume in the portrait. The drive, and the road in front of the French Consulate, were packed with carriages and the usua... ...were thinking, mused Helen, as the carriage door was opened and Gavin helped her out? The French Consulate was smaller than the Residency, but it wa... ...our mother a few days ago at the invitation of Comtesse de Colbert when she was taking tea at the Consulate,’ said Helen, offering this information f...

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...ark • Dominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji • Finland • France • French Polynesia • Germany • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • Indi... ...lso have 48 sister-county relationships spread over nine APEC economies. Consulates in Hawai‘i Ten APEC economies have representation in Hawai...

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... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ...s Age of Reason, were powerful stimulators of 18 th Century American and French thinking. In The Age of Reason he wrote ‗My own mind is my own chur... ...At any rate, agnostics don‘t accept the teachings of religions. But as the French philosopher Rene Descartes told us ‗any person who actually tries t... ...tates.‘ It was agreed that children of foreign diplomats and embassies or consulates and people who owed allegiance to another country could not be ...

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...s XLVII. Of the uncertaintie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus ... ...thes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to bette... ...ot onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell them in their owne, what they wou... ...(Madame, now do I flatter you?) Yet this I may and must say, like in this French-mans report, our third in name, but fist and chiefe in fame, K. Edw... ...oller-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bugge-beares affrighted my un... ...l not interrupt it: to doe it, is inexcusable. And in former ages was the Consulate-place in Rome, which they named the most honourable at the table,...

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylv... .................................................................. 274 6 The French Revolution - V olume Three THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS... ... Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowi... ...V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest; so that, th... ...es. Such, in- deed, is the Epos of Universal History itself. Directorates, Consulates, Emperorships, Restorations, Citizen-Kingships succeed this Busi...

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...y which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so 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 fai...

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... of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between... ... had estimated the probable amount of his savings, so that when, after the Consulate was proclaimed, he bought a farm for fifty thousand francs, the s... ...Empire was just dawning. Those who in these days read the histories of the French Revolution can form no con- ception of the vast spaces which public ... ...n on the councillor. “Since when?” asked Grevin, after a pause. “Since the Consulate for life.” “I hope there’s no proof of it?” “Not that!” said Mali... ...13th V endemiaire and 27 Balzac the 18th Fructidor,” said Malin, “but the Consulate for life has unmasked Bonaparte’s intentions—he will soon be em- ... ... fully as we are to the Revolution; or else, we must upset the idol of the French people and their future emperor, and seat the true throne upon his r... ... 44 An Historical Mystery CHAPTER V ROYALIST HOMES AND PORTRAITS UNDER THE CONSULATE AT THE MOMENT when Marthe, driven by the imminence of the peril, ... ...on- orable gentlemen on whose brow God Himself has written the word mites,—Frenchmen who burrowed in their coun- 46 An Historical Mystery try homes a... ...asty of Bonaparte to the throne and nomi- nated Napoleon as Emperor of the French, was submitted to the French people for acceptance Monsieur d’Hautes...

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...Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open pa...

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...ain!” This exclamation was made by a lawyer’s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper—a messenger in fact—who at this moment was e... ...ard kept his face buried in a pile of papers—broutilles (odds and ends) in French law jargon—and went on draw- ing out the bill of costs on which he w... ...s at a time in some little town, where every care was taken of the invalid Frenchman, but where he was laughed at to his face as soon as he said he wa... ...em. I was dressed like a sans-culotte. I was more like an Esquimaux than a Frenchman—I, who had formerly been considered one of the smartest of fops i... ...ished a letter that had come through the Prussian, Austrian, Bavarian, and French post-offices. 26 Colonel Chabert “Ah ha!” said he with a laugh, “he... ...and so, though he saved his head, lost his fortune. He came back under the Consulate, and remained persistently faithful to the cause of Louis XVIII.,...

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... office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisingano. Bey... ...e line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have been enlivened by a con- sider... ...uch a consul; and worse was behind. A number of deeds being brought to the consulate for registration, Zembsch detected certain transfers of land in w... ...nfluence at home, or by the solicitations of Weber on the spot, the German consulate has shown itself very apt to play the game of the German firm. Th... ...so re- mained, it would still have been a cut-throat quarrel. But when the consulate appeared to be concerned, when the war- ships of the German Empir... ...as of the whites; in practice, they reduce it to a farce. I have heard the French resident in the Marquesas in talk with the French gaoler of Tai-o-ha... ... for a couple of months and be well treated, just as we Germans did to the French chief [Napo- leon III.] some time ago, whom we kept a while and care...

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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... ...f persons, destitute of remunerative occupation, are thronging our foreign consulates and offering to emigrate to the United States if essential, but ... ...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... ...esaid may be carried into effect, it being understood that the quantity of French tobacco so to be exported shall not exceed seven thousand hogsheads,... ...specting the exportation of which ap- plication Was originally made by the French government. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO UNITED STATES MARSHAL, LOU-... ...ce if drafted: Therefore the mere enrolment of a citizen holding a foreign consulate will not be held to vacate his commission, but if he shall be dra... ...e. The evil was promptly corrected on the arrival of the successor in the consulate, and our relations with Egypt, as well as our rela- tions with th...

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...m Scotch instead of Irish, and I have no knowledge that the lackey was not French. The imbecility of the Abbe is merely 4 A Modern Telemachus a deduc... ...the pirate city, and compelled the Dey to receive a consul and to liberate French prisoners and French property; but the lady having been taken in an ... ...t which drove the tartane apart from her captor, for it also shattered the French transports and interfered with Berwick’ s Spanish campaign. The circ... ...rival, the negotiations, and the de- sire of the sheyk to detain the young French lady for a wife to his son, are from the narrative. He really did cl... ...ob- ably had either a surname to be concealed or else unpro- nounceable to French lips. Scott must have had some fur- ther information of the after hi... ...nd that he had already sent a billet to announce their coming. The French Consulate was not distant. The fleur-de-lis waved over a house similar to M... ...g. Mean- while Arthur and Ulysse were to remain as guests at the En- glish Consulate. The French one would have made them welcome, but there was no la... ...d ren- egade with him—would be safe on shore beyond the pre- cincts of the Consulate; but as no one had any claim on him, and it might be desirable to... ...e of their success. And not long after the party had arrived at the French Consulate, where they were to dine, a messenger arrived with a parcel rolle...

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...erable inconvenience, for the Arab gentleman commenced an address to me in French. It has always been to me a source of sorrow that my parents did not... ... always been to me a source of sorrow that my parents did not teach me the French language, and this deficiency on my part has given rise to an incred... ...earned that bow, I might still have been greater than Judkins with all his French. “I am very sorry,” said I, “but I don’t exactly follow the French l... ...but I don’t exactly follow the French language when it is spoken.” “Ah! no French!” said the Arab in very broken English, “dat is one sorrow.” How is ... ...r—who turned out to be an Ital- ian from Trieste, attached to the Austrian Consulate at Alexandria—had the interpreter spoken English with the greates...

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...w servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are a Frenchman, I believe,” asked Phileas Fogg, “and your name is John?” “Jean, ... ... is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would... ...o him and politely 25 Jules Verne asked if he could point out the English consulate, at the same time showing a passport which he wished to have visa... ...entity.” “Oh, is that necessary?” “Quite indispensable.” “And where is the consulate?” “There, on the corner of the square,” said Fix, pointing to a h... ...er reading the passport. “I am.” “And this man is your servant?” “He is: a Frenchman, named Passepartout.” “You are from London?” “Yes.” “And you are ... ... “The servant seems to me less mysterious than the master; besides, he’s a Frenchman, and can’t help talking. Excuse me for a little while, consul.” ... ...arted off in search of Passepartout. Meanwhile Mr. Fogg, after leaving the consulate, repaired to the quay, gave some orders to Passepartout, went off... ...s, after recommending him not to miss the steamer, and hurried back to the consulate. Now that he was fully convinced, Fix had quite recovered his equ... ...rom the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta. The passengers o...

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...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ...we saw were still rich, tawdry, and splendid to outward show, although the French, as usual, had robbed their shrines of their gold and silver, and th... ...Soult and Junot thought, when they despoiled these places of worship, like French philoso- phers as they were. A friend, with a classical turn of mind... ... we left the ladies still un- der the comfortable cool dome of the Russian consulate, and went to see our own representative. The streets of the littl... ...queer an ambassador. The kind, worthy, simple man took me to his temporary consulate-house at the American Missionary Establishment; and, under pre- t... ...w-countrymen from a second floor. But that Alexandrian two-pair-front of a Consulate was more welcome and cheering than a palace to most of us. For th...

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... trip, I did not feel altogether satisfied with them. I intended to take a French guide, or dragoman, who had been with me for some days, and to put m... ...ng I found him in the nar- row street, the first on horseback. Joseph, the French- man, was strapping on to a rough pony our belongings, and was stari... ...ng at Mr. Smith. My new friend, unfortu- nately, could not speak a word of French, and therefore I had to explain to the dragoman how it had come to p... ... complain- ing till he fainted or came to some other signal grief. But the Frenchman, seeing the plight in which we were, was disposed to drive a very... ...g from it, and they come in long droves, reach- ing Jaffa in crowds by the French and Austrian steamers from Smyrna, Damascus, and Constantinople. As ... ...to you. He shall give me his promise that he will make you his wife at the consulate at Alex- andria, or I will destroy him. I know who he is.” “If yo...

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...ite dawdling (they were always getting them- selves up, but it took forever, and Pemberton had once found Mr. Moreen shaving in the drawing-room), the... ...ed there and from several mysterious men with foreign titles and English clothes whom Morgan called the princes and who, on sofas with the girls, talk... ... of a les- son, and consisted of the apparently unfeeling words: “You ought to filer, you know—you really ought.” Pemberton stared. He had learnt enou... ... for Morgan he was really capable of that; but the boy, growing more serious, and to prove he hadn’t meant what he said, not only hurried him off to t...

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..., 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the even... ...te, and it was arranged I was to write up for Fanny, and we should both dine on the morrow. On the Friday, I was all forenoon in the Mission House, lu... ...renoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawyer on my ... ... briskly home to the Monument—‘I only liked one young woman—and that was Mrs. Procter. ’Henry James 20 Robert Louis Stevenson would like that. Back ... ...ead pull; a month only produced the imperfect embryos of two chapters; lunched in the boarding-house, played on my pipe; went out and did some of my m... ...incorporated; it is to be told in the third person, with some of the brevity of history, some of the detail of romance. The shovelsof New- 36 Robert ... ...m before, but my state trials have never come. So that I have now quite planned:— Dyce of Ythan. (Historical, 1750. ) Sophia Scarlet. (To- day. ) Th... ...to me and the amanuensis bears up extraordinar’. The story is to be called St. Ives; I give you your choice whether or not it should bear the subtitle... ...aul, all things to all men. I have an account of the latter racket which I meant to have enclosed in this… . Had some splendid photos taken, like- wi...

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...nded a ship, and come ashore in his smart togs, and talked big in bars and consulates, and sat in club verandahs, turned me sick and sober. He tried t... ... He answered me eagerly in native. “Don’t you speak any English?” said I. “French,” says he. 18 Robert Louis Stevenson “Well,” said I, “I’m sorry, bu... ...d I, “I’m sorry, but I can’t do anything there.” He tried me awhile in the French, and then again in na- tive, which he seemed to think was the best c... ...ather Ga- loshes was the name he went by most, but Case always gave it the French quirk, which was another reason we had for think- ing him above the ... ...amily. He could talk to Uma, of course, and started to teach me native and French at the same time. He was a kind old buffer, though the dirtiest you ... ...ent or there- about. We could not do better. Come, Keawe, let us go to the French islands; let us go to Tahiti, as fast as ships can bear us. There we...

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...one moment he understood it all. The enemy were advancing, to surprise the French army, and would be upon them when night was further advanced. That m... ...the self-devotion of the chevalier; for, among the new war-steamers of the French fleet, there is one that bears the ever-honored name of D’Assas. THE... ...shown himself worthy of his name, both as a citizen and soldier. His first consulate had been in conjunction with one of the most high-spirited and fa... ...and character would be more like that of the modern Welsh, or of their own French descendants, small, alert, and dark-eyed, full of fire, but, though ... ...ewi, or White Stream, in Latin Genovefa, but she is best known by the late French form of Genevieve. When she was about seven years old, two celebrate... ...another five hundred years after, were successfully de- fended against the French by a small force of British troops under the command of Colonel Hugh...

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...charterers, where he came in misanthropically to get paid for towing out a French barque the day before. The second time I could hardly believe my eye... ... a sailor always a sailor—and he had known the river for years. But in our Consulate (where I arrived dripping after a sharp walk) they could tell me ... ...r suggestion was that I should hunt the man up myself with the help of the Consulate’s 36 Falk constable—an ex-sergeant-major of a regiment of Hussar...

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...udes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the ... ...od one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians of Walter Scott’s ta... ...inary pride, quite intelligible in a sheriff ’s grandson, though under the consulate his prospects were but slender; all the more so, indeed, because ... ...nymous fame. Though a mixture of verse and prose is a monstrous anomaly in French literature, there must be exceptions to the rule. This tale will be ... ... in soci- ety. Though the sound common sense which lies at the root of the French nature was not perverted, women were suf- 36 The Muse of the Depart... ...time, would certainly have been hooted. The provin- cial public—like every French public, perhaps—does not share the love of the King of the French fo...

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... additional information in a future edition. The scientific portion of the French original is not with- out a few errors, which the translator, with t... ... sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century... ...s the word “tabiled”, which looked like Hebrew, and in the last the purely French words “mer”, “arc”, “mere.” “ All this was enough to drive a poor fe... ...uments, a sheet of paper, carefully folded, bore the heading of the Danish consulate with the signature of W. Christiensen, consul at Hamburg and the ... ...ooking guns, which need not alarm any one. Close by, at No. 5, there was a French “restaurant,” kept by a cook of the name of Vincent, where we had an... ...h the Valkyria was for the time the only occupant. Usually the English and French con- servators of fisheries moor in this bay, but just then they wer...

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...isiting the ship. He was the doctor of our Legation and, of course, of the Consulate, too. He looked after the ship’s health, which gen- erally was po... ...man with a nose and chin of the Punch type, and whom his shipmates called “Frenchy.” I don’t know why. He may have been a French- man, but I have neve... ...have been a French- man, but I have never heard him utter a single word in French. To see him coming aft to the wheel comforted one. The blue dungaree... ...as one could make certain by feeling. It was im- possible to see anything. Frenchy had stationed himself for- ward. He said he had a jump or two left ... ...h the low plaint of the spars. I was just in time to seize the wheel while Frenchy who had followed me caught up the collapsing Gambril. He hauled him... ...hear me. I retreated quietly and went straight on to the poop to re- lieve Frenchy, who by that time was beginning to look very sick. He gave me the c...

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... 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... ... youth and distinguished manners, made this emigre a graceful image of the French noblesse. He presented a strong contrast to Hulot, who, ten feet dis... ...and pleasures of which it had been so long deprived. The first acts of the Consulate did not diminish any hopes, and Liberty felt no alarm. The First ... ...er the death of a comrade without being thought unfeeling.” “He’s the true French soldier,” said Hulot, in a grave tone. “Just look at him pulling his... ...reme good taste which all dandies blindly obeyed in the first years of the Consulate. This cos- tume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as...

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...y, and a tight cravat showing no shirt-collar,—a last ves- tige of the old French costume which he did not renounce, perhaps, because it enabled him t... ...wo centuries, was worn by the chevalier with the high-bred grace of an old French mar- quis, the secret of which is lost to France since the day when ... ...siness. From 1793 to 1799 du Bousquier was commissary of provisions to the French armies. He lived in a magnificent hotel and was one of the matadors ... ...incom- plete to those who cannot conceive of genius without the sparkle of French passion; but he was powerful in the world of mind, and he was liable... ...ut of proportion in numbers to the bachelors who wanted to marry. When the Consulate restored internal order, external difficulties made the mar- riag... ...The worthy soul, now seventy years of age, attributed the disasters of the French Revolution to the design of Providence, eager to pun- ish a dissolut...

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...ntury in which men and things bore the characteristics of simplicity which French manners and customs are losing day by day. Follow the wind- ings of ... ...s a master-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher. At the period when the French Republic offered for sale the church property in the arrondissement ... ...mmunity of women whose lands had been reserved for the last lot. Under the Consulate Grandet became mayor, governed wisely, and harvested still better... ...ency of the weather, gave an appear- ance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which ... ... of Madame Grandet, old Monsieur de la Bertelliere, as a lieutenant in the French guard, and the deceased Madame Gentillet in the guise of a shep- her... ...Grandet. No one in Anjou heard better, or could pronounce more crisply the French language (with an Angevin accent) than the wily 84 Eugenie Grandet ...

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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... ... a faithful picture of her simple, pure, and tranquil existence. Under the Consulate, Bridau attached himself fanatically to Napoleon, who placed him ... ...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... ... 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... ... island of their tyranny to the great *The cruelty of the Spaniards to the French prisoners at Cabrera was very great. In the spring of 1811, H.M. bri... ...pped the face of the officer near- est to him, saying,— “Do you understand French?” They fought near by, in the allee de Frapesle, three against three...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...ivate life of the bourgeoi- sie of the nineteenth. At the beginning of the Consulate, let 10 The Lesser Bourgeoisie us say, some master-mason having ... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...fortune in one of those wicked conceptions which reflect such discredit on French commerce, but which, in the year 1827, had not yet been exposed and ... ...rown pretentious with wealth, without, at the same time, learning to speak French. She was now very fat, and gave the idea, in her rich surroundings, ... ...ected to supply myself, and without which, in virtue of the decrees of the consulate of 17 Nivose, year VII., the post agents were not permitted to de...

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... in the town was distinctly heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a dischord in the great harmony of nature’s silence.... ...n, more red than ever, and in more tongues, tell him that he doesn’t want no Frenchmen, with bloom upon them and also with blood, in his ship, with bl... ...ght and day, arriving here at about five o’clock. Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any telegram had arrived for him, whilst the rest of ...

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...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ... joined other Algerians in planning a possible attack on a U.S. airport or consulate, Ressam left Afghanistan in early 1999 carrying precursor chemica... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...airy—an imam at the mosque and an accredited diplomat at the Saudi Arabian consulate from 1996 until 2003—may have played a role in helping the hijack... ...ayoumi could address a visa issue and col- lect some papers from the Saudi consulate. Bayoumi heard Hazmi and Mih- dhar speaking in what he recognized... ... to be made through travel agencies, instead of directly at the embassy or consulate. 13 A terrorist threat advisory distributed in late June indicate... ...urther training that he could use to carry out a potential attack. 92 As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained im... ...t the case. 96 The FBI legal attaché’s office in Paris first contacted the French government on August 16 or 17, shortly after speaking to the Minneap...

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... changed. He seems a gentle- manly old boy enough now.” In the above-named consulate, when we had grandfa- thers alive, there would be in the old gent... ...o loved athe- ism, tyranny, plunder, and wickedness in general, like their French friend. In the pictures these men were all represented as dwarfs, li... ...men; and was until latter days very contemptu- ous in his behavior towards Frenchmen. He has a natu- ral antipathy to pomp, and swagger, and fierce de... ...itish prejudices, and these led him in peace time to laugh at soldiers and French- men. If those hulking footmen who accompanied the carriages to the ... ...tions on account of Mr. Punch’s as- saults upon the present Emperor of the French nation, whose anger Jeames thought it was unpatriotic to arouse. Mr.... ...draughtsmen—he published a book of “Les Anglais,” and his Anglais were all Frenchmen. The eye, so keen and so long practised to observe Pari- sian lif...

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...ay. I fancy I must have been impressed by the écriture artiste which the French writers of the time had not yet entirely aban doned, and unwisely s... ...he staff of St Luke’s, and had come ostensibly to study the methods of the French operators; but his real object was certainly to see Margaret Dauncey... ...at savoured almost of leger demain. Though the hint of charlatanry in the Frenchman’s methods had not escaped Arthur Burdon’s shrewd eyes, the audaci... ...s hospital, and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profession. Whenever ... ...The divine music of Keats’s lines rang through Arthur’s remark, and to the Frenchman’s mind gave his passion a ro mantic note that foreboded future t... ... which was attributed to him. My friend, who was interpreter to the French Consulate, brought him to me one evening. He was a fine man, tall and stout... ...nswered the old woman. ‘I heard her tell the coachman to go to the British Consulate.’ The last doubt was leaving Susie. She went to the dress maker ... ...ong enough to make her visit seem natural. On leaving her, she went to the Consulate, and her last doubt was dissipated. Then nothing remained but to ...

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...e girl costumed as Night wore a small black velvet mask, what is called in French a “loup.” What made her daintiness join that obviously rough lot I c... ... in Paris. V ery Parisian indeed. And yet he struck me as not so perfectly French as he ought to have been, as if one’s nationality were an accomplish... ... and as if weary. “Are you a seaman? In what sense, pray?” We were talking French and he used the term homme de mer. Again Mills interfered quietly. “... ...r friend his shipwreck adventure. We must not strain the toleration of the French authorities too much! It wouldn’t be correct—and not very safe eithe... ...umancia (a Republican ironclad) had appeared and chased them ashore on the French coast below Bayonne. In a few words, but with evident appreciation o... ... could survey the flags of all nations al- most—except his own. (The U. S. consulate was on the other side of the town.) He mumbled through his teeth ... ... mumbled through his teeth that he took good care to keep clear of his own consulate. “Are you afraid of the consul’s dog?” I asked jocularly. The con... ... Sahara or a wall of bricks, a landscape of rivers and forests or only the Consulate of Paraguay. But I had been thinking, apparently, of Mr. Blunt wi...

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...a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, of Sidney, of Marmaduke Robinson; before a French Reign of Terror, and a Salem hanging of witches; before a fanatic Re... ...stantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experi... ...pel. This is a law which statesmen use in practice. All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to com- mand her di... ... we can in Greek, in Punic, in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living. In like manner we ... ...hion and covet- ousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of... ... he said. It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they ...

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... in jelly, and suck with placidity, in the intervals of a curt exchange of French with the wife of the Hon. Melville, a ringleted English lady, or of ... ...- cately perceptible to the Comte, and not a soul saw it but that wretched Frenchman! He came to me: “Madame,” he said, “is a question permitted?” I r... .... The gift would be base that you did not embellish.” He lifted his hands, French- fashion: “Madame, it is that I have received the gift.”—”In- deed! ... ...t.” He should have stopped there; but you cannot have the last word with a Frenchman—not even a woman. Fortunately the Queen just then made her entry ... ...e waiter carelessly for some light supper dish, he sug- gested the various French, with ‘not that?’ and the affable naming of another. ‘Nor that? Dear... ... ‘ROME. ‘Let the post-mark be my reply to your letter received through the Consulate, and most courteously delivered with the Consul’s compliments. We...