Memories of French PalacesBradbury, Evans, 1871 - 352 páginas |
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abode afterwards Anne of Austria arrived beautiful beheld Bonaparte Bourbon Brantôme bride brother Catherine de Médicis Charles charm Château child Cloud Compiègne Comte d'Artois consort courtiers crown daughter Dauphin death declared Duc and Duchesse Duc d'Orléans Duc de Berri Duc de Chartres Duc de Penthièvre Duchesse d'Angoulême Duchesse d'Orléans Duchesse de Berri Élysée Emperor Empress England exile father fête Fontainebleau French Germain grand happiness heart Henri honour husband Imperial Joséphine King of France ladies Louis Philippe Louis XIV Louis XVIII Louvre Madame de Genlis Madame de Maintenon Madame de Montespan Mademoiselle Majesty Malmaison Marie Antoinette Marie de Médicis Marie Louise Marie Mancini Marquise marriage married memory monarch mother Napoléon Orléans Palais Royal Paris political Pompadour present Price Prince Princesse de Lamballe Queen Hortense reign residence Revolution Richelieu scarcely scene sorrow tears took Trianon Tuileries Voltaire whilst widow wife young youth
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Página 57 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 323 - Yes! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones? Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones?
Página 352 - So observes Mr. Charles Knight, in his admirably comprehensive popular History of England, from which no topic that concerns the history of the English people — not even this question of the origin of parish registers — has been omitted; that book of Mr.
Página 193 - ... that his execution should be postponed for twenty-four hours. In the interval, he had a repast prepared with care, on which he feasted •with more than usual avidity. When led out to execution, he gazed for a time, with a smile on his countenance, on the Palais Royal, the scene of his former orgies. He was detained above a quarter of an hour in front of that palace by order of Robespierre, who had in vain asked his daughter's hand in marriage, and had promised, if he would relent in that extremity,...
Página 230 - to the Elysee to see the Emperor : he summoned me into his closet, and as soon as he saw me, he came to meet me with a frightful epileptic laugh. ' Oh, my God ! ' he said, raising his eyes to heaven, and walking two or three times up and down the room. This appearance of despair was however very short. He soon recovered his coolness, and asked me what was going forward in the Chamber of Representatives. I could not attempt to hide that...
Página 353 - Cyclopaedia' is a work that as a whole has no superior and very few equals of its kind; that, taken by itself, supplies the place of a small library ; and, used in a large library, is found to present many points of information that are sought in vain in any other cyclopaedia in the English language.
Página 300 - No sooner was it known," are his words, "that the interests of France had induced me to dissolve the ties of my marriage, than the greatest sovereigns of Europe intrigued for an alliance with me. As soon as the Emperor of Austria heard that a new marriage was in agitation, he sent for Count Narbonne, and expressed his surprise that his family had not been thought of.