Dumas' ParisL. C. Page, 1904 - 395 páginas |
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Página 153 - The Council of State in 1785 decreed that the cemetery should be cleared of its dead, and converted into a market-place, after the canonical forms which were requisite in such cases should have been observed : the archbishop, in conformity, issued a decree for the suppression, demolition and evacuation of the cemetery, directing that the bones and bodies should be removed to the...
Página 288 - But, at all events, the Iron Mask and Lauzun had committed heinous crimes. The Iron Mask, whether brother or not of Louis XIV., it is asserted, resembled king; Louis XIV. so strongly, that it was almost impossible to distinguish the one from the other. It is exceedingly imprudent to dare to resemble a king. Lauzun had been very near marrying, or did actually marry the Grand Mademoiselle. It is exceedingly imprudent to dare to marry the niece of King Louis XIII., the grand-daughter of Henry IV.
Página 356 - Bellegarde, a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping in the wind, a sheet of tin covered with a caricature resemblance of the Pont du Gard. This modern place of entertainment stood on the left-hand side of the grand route, turning its back upon the Rhone.
Página 348 - ON THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY 1815,1 the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.
Página 354 - ... before the lighthouse at Marseilles when he swam there, and who, with one accord, pronounced him the best swimmer in the port. When he reappeared the light had disappeared. It was necessary to strike out to sea; Ratonneau and Pomegue are the nearest isles of all those that surround the Chateau d'If.
Página 85 - the evil eye,' " he said ; " and sure to bring bad luck to any one who closely links his destiny with hers, for however short a time. You see what has occurred to Dujarrier. If ever she is heard of again, it will be in connection with some terrible calamity that has befallen a lover of hers.
Página 372 - Nous sommes les filles du feu secret, Du feu qui circule dans les veines de la terre ; Nous sommes les filles de l'aurore et de la rosee, Nous sommes les filles de l'air, Nous sommes les filles de l'eau ; Mais nous sommes avant tout les filles du ciel.
Página 356 - A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict. Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the subtropical sun.
Página 112 - Philippe began his dinner with four plates of different kinds of soup; in a fifth plate his majesty usually mixed portions of the four varieties he had eaten and appeared to enjoy this singular culinary combination. During the latter period of his reign his physicians were alarmed at the prodigious amount of food the monarch contrived to consume and to distract his attention from the actual occupation of eating prescribed a system of spreading marrow, caviare and such like condiments on thin slices...