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Arthurian Chronicles : Roman de Brut

By: Eugene Mason

...breaking of Arthur’s bread. At this table sat Britons, Frenchmen, Normans, Angevins, Flemings, Burgundians, and Loherins. Knights had their plate who ... ..., but Frenchman and Burgundian, Auvergnat and Gascon, Norman and Poitivin, Angevin and Fleming, together with him of Brabant, Hainault, and Lorraine, ... ... therefore, took counsel with the emperor, requiring him to summon all the empire to his aid. They devised that with his host he should pass through t... ...e the cupbearer were the captains. With Kay were the men of Chinon and the Angevins; whilst under Bedevere were the levies of Paris and of Beauce. T o... ...nly Roman breathes. Great as is the glory of your fathers who subdued this empire, so great will be the shame of their sons in whose day it is destroy... ... well sustained. Pagan and Saracen were set to prove their manhood against Angevins and the folk of Beauce. King Bocus took a sword, 127 Wace and dis...

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The Prince and the Page

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... assume a saintly halo in the eyes not merely of the English, but of their Angevin lords themselves, was, now to reign on almost equal terms with the ... ...ichard was in the imperial purple, or rather scarlet, and the eagle of the empire on his breast testified to the futile election which he had purchase... ...ortunate Michael Palaeologos, who had lately recovered Constantinople, the Empire that Charles hoped to win for himself, the favoured champion of Rome... ...to the Greek expedition; but Edward was far too much dis- pleased with the Angevin to accept his hospitality; recollect- ing, perhaps, that such a soj...

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Eugenie Grandet

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ame mayor, governed wisely, and harvested still better pickings. Under the Empire he was called Monsieur Grandet. Napoleon, however, did not like repu... ... the Phrygian cap) by a man of his own surroundings, a future baron of the Empire. Monsieur Grandet quitted office without regret. He had constructed ... ...ion, thank 42 Eugenie Grandet God! to compromise myself now, even for the empire of the Great Mogul. You and I are of an age when we both know the me... ...ys six francs a pound. The necessity of economizing it, acquired under the Empire, had grown to be the most inveterate of his habits. All women, even ... ...heard better, or could pronounce more crisply the French language (with an Angevin accent) than the wily 84 Eugenie Grandet old cooper. Some years ea...

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Eve and David

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ofound study of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. As for the elderly beau of the Empire, he seemed since his marriage to have followed the example of the sp... ...own conclusions from that fact? never seen that if France had accepted the Angevin dynasty of the Plantagenets, the two peoples thus reunited would be...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... a book of a contemporary of Rabelais, the Legende de Pierre Faifeu by the Angevin, Charles de Bourdigne, the first edition of which dates from 1526 a... ...ioned, as I conceive it, by the transport and revolu- tion of kingdoms and empires, from the Assyrians to the Medes, from the Medes to the Persians, f... ...d, when he saw them in ire, They should o’erthrow quite flat down dead th’ empire. He rather choosed the fire from heaven to steal, To boats where wer... ...he did oftentimes yawn, and ran very heart- ily after the butterflies, the empire whereof belonged to his father. He pissed in his shoes, shit in his ... ...reof some are Amazons, some Lionnoises, others Parisiennes, T aurangelles, Angevines, Poictevines, Normandes, and High Dutch—there are of them of all ... ...is same fealty obsequious observance all the nations lately annexed to his empire; which so truly came to pass that therein he was not disappointed of... ...h subjection the Saxons, whose dominion he had joined 305 Rabelais to the empire, but that ever and anon they would break forth into open rebellion i...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ed mine; and whether thou art any better or any worse than any other black Angevin thief, it is for thy King to find out. Therefore, go back to thy Ki... ...ber, after all, we are the people of the Old Stock, and our duty is to the Empire.” “‘T o which Empire?” I asked. “We split the Eagle before I was bor... ...ed.” “‘Ah!” said Maximus. “My old General was killed because he served the Empire too well. I may be killed, but not for that reason,” and he smiled a... ...e armour bound, Beat strongly, for Thy life-blood runs, Age after Age, the Empire round— In us Thy Sons, 87 Rudyard Kipling Who, distant from the Sev... ... Rimini. It’s one of the tunes that are always being born somewhere in the Empire. They run like a pesti- lence for six months or a year, till another... .... ‘Old men who have fol- lowed the Eagles since boyhood say nothing in the Empire is more wonderful than first sight of the Wall!’ ‘Is it just a Wall?...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Suspicion, in those lands, in those days. If poor famishing men s... ...he Mother-Society, ask, being henceforth themselves ‘nei- ther Bretons nor Angevins but French, ’ Why all France has not one Federation, and universal... ...ng round, the Citoyens, in frugal Love-feast, sit there. Night in her wide empire sees nothing similar. O my brothers, why is the reign of Brotherhood... ...al Sin; Earth, Heaven, and thou Outer Limbo, which men name Hell! Does the Empire of Imposture waver? Burst there, in starry sheen updarting, Light-ra...

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