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...Excerpt: If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessive...

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...nsieur Achille Deveria An affectionate remembrance from the Author. IF THE FRENCH have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propen... ...on for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than En- gland is ... ... thinking, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere else to be met with. Hence a French- man, whose... ...he cobblestones were hidden in the grass, the blackened walls where little gardens were flourish- ing above the decorations of the elegant architectur... ...at home; we might as well make a little door of open railings to unite our gardens. . . . Y ou, too, are fond of flowers; you will see mine, I shall s... ...robability to arouse no contradiction. “When I moved to Genoa I received a formal announce- ment of the happy event of the birth of a son to the Count...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most importan...

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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...obliged to buy in his own name the church, the parsonage house, the castle gardens, and other places to which his patron was attached—the Marquis ad- ... ... pretty thoroughly forgotten. “My dear Chevalier, there is no need of such formalities to present a d’Esgrignon at court,” the Marquis broke in.—”A hu... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...going back to Paris; so I can inform you that Chesnel’s successor has made formal proposals for Mlle. Claire Blandureau’s hand on behalf of young du R... ...ter, in which he begged the Count to draw upon him with- out the insulting formality of depositing the amount before- hand. The Comte d’Esgrignon next...

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......................... 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE........................................................................................... 33 BILL-STICKING ..................................................................................................

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...................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE......................................................... ............................................. ............. 202 A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY.................................................................. ...kling, heaving, swelling up with life and beauty, this bright morning. OUR FRENCH WATERING PLACE HAVING EARNED, BY MANY YEARS of fidelity, the rig... ...istence a top, and having doors and 36 Reprinted Pieces windows, and even gardens, on these ramparts. A child go ing in at the courtyard gate of one... ...the appearance of having come express on his hind legs from the Zoological Gardens; and he incontinently strikes up the chief’s praises, plunging and ... ...public health, have been fired off in a volley. Whizz! Dust heaps, market gardens, and waste grounds. Rattle! New Cross Station. Shock! There we were... ...y, this Tape, and was a bright red all over. She was disgustingly prim and formal, and could never bend herself a hair’s breadth this way or that way,...

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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... ...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 ... ...y made. The agents left nothing for Laurence but the chateau, the park and gardens, and one farm called that of Cinq-Cygne. Malin instructed the appra... ... 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... ...a close manager than a knight of the old nobility, had turned the park and gardens to profit, and used their two hundred acres of grass and woodland a... ... which reigned at nine o’clock in the evening in the park, courtyards, and gardens of Cinq-Cygne, where at that particular moment the persons we have ... ... all accounts with the bailiff and dismiss him. Michu asked and obtained a formal discharge and became a free man. To the great astonishment of the ne... ...e days. We kill men,” he said with some bitterness, “but at least we do it formally, especially in Paris.” Monsieur de Chargeboeuf had already receive...

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...he passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...y the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a s... ...g her companion as she wrote, or rather hesitated to write. Thence the thousand cries, the thousand railleries, the thousand laughs, one of which, mor... ...aid of honor this morning.” A bell, in fact, did ring; it announced that Madame had finished her toilette, and waited for Monsieur to give her his han... ...er, a messenger!” But this brave guard knew very well that no officer would appear, seeing that the only one who could have appeared dwelt at the othe... ...ety almost equal to that of the prince, every maneuver of her august husband. Raoul, impassible, and a little disengaged by the atten- tion of his hos... ...which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet — both dreamers — which the Eng... ...ned in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended ... ...us; what we have done was for love of your honor, whom we thought lost.” “You are mad, gentlemen. Lost! Is a man like me to be lost? Am I not permitte... ...complete system, Porthos.” “Entirely,” said Porthos. “Continue.” “No; I have read enough of it; but, since it is you, my dear Porthos, who direct the ...

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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... ... been sold and pulled down. Speculators had built sev- eral houses over my gardens. Not knowing that my wife had married M. Ferraud, I could obtain no... ...stry of War?” “The war office!” said Derville. “Well, go there; but take a formal legal opinion with you, nullifying the certificate of your death. Th...

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............... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ............

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ... absolutely enveloped Greenhay; and, for any thing I know, the grounds and gardens which then insulated the house may have long disappeared. Being a m... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...,”) so that very seldom any serious business was trans- acted. Without any formal armistice, the paramount conve- nience of such an arrangement silent... ...ascending to a height beyond any that I have since seen in fairs or public gardens. Horror was at my heart regularly as the swing reached its most aer... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ...des laborers equal to at least two more, were required for the grounds and gardens. And no motive ex- isted any longer for being near to a great tradi... ... however, I, my younger brother, and a school-fellow of my own age, called formally upon the naval hero. Why, I know not, unless as alumni of the scho... ...nd manuscripts, which were originally collected and 166 Thomas de Quincey formally bequeathed to the public, under the generous and noble idea of giv...

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...: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name; it was not removed till 1823, when the Municipali...

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...ense of distinction and decorative fit- ness which mark the work of modern French architects. For above a month Caroline had been at home in this apar... ...mation of dismay— qualified, however, by the spirit which rarely deserts a French- man—at seeing no hackney coach waiting outside the gates, and heari... ...e win- dows to the room, looking out on a country-town garden, laid out in formal square beds edged with box, the room was so dark that it was difficu... ... Under their roof every one is ill at ease, no one laughs, stiff- ness and formality infect everything, from the mistress’ cap down to her pincushion;...

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...tectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi-... ...ur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a refle... ... glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it wa... ...nge. Peace and plenty, however, have succeeded that episode; and among the gardens and vineyards of Touraine it seems, only a legend the more in a cou... ...our eye wanders over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away ... ...astions, the terraces, the high-perched windows and balconies, the hanging gardens and dizzy crenellations, of this complicated structure, keep you in... ...f the Archeveche, which has been arranged as a public walk, with the usual formal alleys of the jardin francais. I must add that I appreciated these p... .... Superficially, the association is incongruous, for nothing could be more formal and decorous than the patent expression of these eligible residences...

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...0 C.i.f. London: documents at sight, 8 The Waste Land Asked me in demotic French To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel Followed by a weekend at the ... ...D After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison ... ...chado. 431. V. Kyd’ s Spanis Tragedy. 433. Shantih. Repeated as here, a formal ending to an Upanishad. ‘The Peace which passeth understanding’ is a...

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...the author that the con- struction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a ta... ...in Picardy, and it was while attending to some business connected with the French estate that my father had fallen in love with a beautiful young wido... ...elcomed at Walwyn Court by any one but the dear beauti- ful grandmother, a Frenchwoman herself, who was delighted again to hear her mother tongue, alt... ...randma, though indeed I dream of her often still, and of the old rooms and gardens at Walwyn, though I have never seen them since. When we were quite ... ..., we four young ones kept as much together as we could do in the house and gardens, and played all our dear old games of shuttlecock, and pig go to ma... ...im back to M. le Marquis, who had utterly forgotten all his politeness and formality towards the ladies. However, our sufferings were over at last. My... ...ate and make the house a kind of inn for travelers. There were fine walled gardens run into wild confusion, and little neglected and dismantled shrine... ...hearing of my wilfulness and insub- ordination, for she was very grand and formal with me, sol- emnly calling me Madame la Vicomtesse, and never her n... ...em to their grandmother. Poor little things! I thought them very stiff and formal, and pitied them when I saw them; but I believed they were really fu...

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...ith his wife to France. Annis, as you know, is betrothed to the son of his French friends, Malcolm is to study at the Paris University, and Davie to b... ...e to be with Meg at Bourges?’ Jeanie opened her blue eyes wide. ‘Go to the French King’s Court?’ she said. ‘To the land of chivalry and song,’ exclaim... ...who, like Sir Patrick Drummond, had served in France, and re- tained their French breeding. So Jean, hawk and all, had to be handed to her seat by Sir... ... was, with all her youthful impulsiveness had not waited for the grand and formal greeting bestowed on the princesses by her stately young sister-in-l... ...p the next day. Warwick House was a really magnificent place, its courts, gardens, and offices covering much of the ground that still bears the name ... ...t the ring, and jousting, or long rides in the environs, minstrelsy in the gardens, and once a graceful ballet of the King’s own com- position; and th... ...Duke Sigismund had communicated to Sir Patrick his in- tention of making a formal request to King James for the hand of the Lady Eleanor. He was to fi... ... they could be fully secure; Sigismund had no one’s consent to ask, save a formal licence from his cousin, the Emperor Frederick III., who would prono...

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...dull as itself, and dull in the same way. So this second party is, in some French houses, a happy protest on the part of the old spirit of our light-h... ...selle des Touches is noted in Paris as being the last refuge where the old French wit has found a home, with its reserved depths, its myriad subtle by... ... his narra- tive gave rise, as to the changes that have taken place in the French woman since the fateful revolution of July. On that evening chance h... ..., you have my permission,’ said I, reply- ing to this gesture by using the formal vous instead of tu. ‘Nay, better, I beg you to do so.’— ‘But,’ cried... ... by the Av- enue de Marigny, to the south by the road, to the north by the gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Honore. Never is this pretty variety of woman...

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... which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on t... ...of ours, with eighty vessels and twelve thousand men. And he came from the French coast between Calais and Boulogne, ‘because thence was the shortest ... ...om, I dare say, he made the same complaint as Napoleon Bonaparte the great French General did, eigh teen hundred years afterwards, when he said they ... ...nce. Stimulated by this support, Thomas a Becket, on a great festival day, formally pro ceeded to a great church crowded with people, and going up in... ... and seventy of the young nobility to be knighted —the trees in the Temple Gardens were cut down to make room for their tents, and they watched their ... ...story by saying that he lived a harmless life in the Castle and the Castle gardens at Kenilworth, many years that he had a favourite, and plenty to ... ...hrough all the streets; when some of the noise had died away, the King was formally deposed. Then Henry arose, and, making the sign of the cross on hi... ...y in the King’s palace, and, six days after wards, sent in to the Lords a formal statement of his claim to the throne. The lords went to the King on ... ...e frequently walked and talked with him in the long galleries and pleasant gardens of the Palace at Hampton Court, whither he was now removed; and in ...

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...ngued’oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French. On this day, Duke William himself was expected at Bayeux, to pay a ... ...e Barons had nothing to say to such a little boy, and the very respect and formality with which they treated him, made him shrink from them still more... ...e him again?” “Montemar is on the bank of the Epte, in the domain that the French wrongfully claim from us. He lives there with his mother, and if he ... ... face of the young Duke, to the black flashing eyes and olive cheek of his French vassal, who, though two years older, was scarcely above him in heigh... ...egiance which Richard owed to the King, and, on the other hand, the King’s formal reception of him as a vassal, holding, under him, the two dukedoms o... ...in the midst, and interspersed with gnarled hoary old apple-trees, or with gardens of pot-herbs spreading before them to the meadows. If, instead of t...

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...uspected of a certain un- emotional, grim acceptance of facts; of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” Very true. Yes. There is the ... ...f the matter is, the cap- tain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...er reasons why I should remember that year, but they are too long to state formally in this place. Moreover they have nothing to do with that holiday.... ...g soft- ness. The effect of opaline mist was often repeated at Bessborough Gardens on account of the nearness to the river. There is no reason why I s... ...as very early morning and a slight mist, an opaline mist as in Bessborough Gardens only with- out the fiery flicks on roof and chimney-pot from the ra... ...believed enough in your existence to let you haunt my rooms in Bessborough Gardens, you would have been much more lost. You affirm that had I been cap... ...ts has the permanency of the written word, seldom the charm of variety, is formal in its phrasing. There the literary master has the superior- ity, th... ...rfectly bloodless, narrow physiognomy clamped together as it were by short formal side-whiskers, had nothing of Sir Leicester Dedlock’s “grand air” an...

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...suspected of a certain unemotional, grim accep- tance of facts—of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” V ery true. Y es. There is th... ... of the matter is, the captain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ... reasons why I should re- member that year, but they are too long to state formally in this place. Moreover, they have nothing to do with that holiday... ...he unattractive sight of the domestic slave. The girls in that Bessborough Gardens house were often changed, but whether short or long, fair or dark, ... ...ing softness. The effect of opaline mist was often repeated at Bessborough Gardens on account of the nearness to the river. There is no reason why I s... ...as very early morning, and a slight mist—an opaline mist as in Bessborough Gardens, only without the fiery flicks on roof and chimney-pot from the ray... ...ctly bloodless, narrow physiognomy clamped together, as it were, by short, formal side whiskers, had noth- 97 Joseph Conrad ing of Sir Leicester Dedl...

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...y made their way into the dining room of the hotel, which was a spa- cious restaurant, with a fountain in the middle, a great many tall plants in orna... ...roportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses. Within, the place was cool and vaguely lighted, with the plash of water, the odor of ... ...d, upon soundless carpets. “It’s rather like Paris, you know,” said the younger of our two travelers.” “It’s like Paris—only more so,” his companion r... ...everything of that sort. I am going to Hamp- ton Court, and to Windsor, and to the Dulwich Gallery.” Lord Lambeth seemed greatly amused. “I wonder you... ...s garden,” said the young girl. “We must certainly go there.” Lord Lambeth broke out into merriment. “I say, Woodley,” he cried, “here’s Miss Alden wa... ...precedence is horrid.” “I certainly shouldn’t think your sister would like it,” rejoined Lord Lambeth with even exaggerated gravity. But Bessie Alden ...

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...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ...duced temporarily to admire the French people. They are sagacious in fruit-gardens. They have not the English Con- stitution, you think rightly; but i... ... They have not the English Con- stitution, you think rightly; but in fruit-gardens they grow for fruit, and not, as Victor quotes a friend, for wood, ... ...g drifted into the neighbourhood of a person resem- bling in her repellent formal chill virtuousness a windy bel- fry tower, down among those district... ... and signed by the Rev. Septimus, petitioning for a private interview. The formality of the request incensed Victor. ‘Now, dear love, you see Colney’s... ...he obligation upon him to speak—it is expected in such cases, if only as a formality—of his ‘love’: hard to do even in view and near to the damsel’s r... ...oo.’ He stared and nod- ded. In the carriage, he said: ‘I’m driving to the Gardens, for a stroll, to have a look at the beasts. Sort of relief. Poor c...

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... last general war, and, for a novelty, it oc- curred in an English ship. A French privateer captured the vessel on her passage home, the flaxseed was ... ...eached Paris on the first day of the succeeding month. We went through the formalities of the custom-houses, or barrieres, the same day, and the next ... ...to think that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact should be conceale... ... shed their fragrance on the air, and to brighten the aspect of the public gardens. Mad. de la Rocheaimard usually slept the soundest at this hour, an... ...RNING OF THE 14TH JUNE ARRIVED. Paris is then at its loveliest season. The gardens in particular are worthy of the capital of Europe, and they are ope... ...The bargain was now commenced in earnest, offering an instructive scene of French protestations, assertions, contradictions and volubility on one side... ...f I have any fault to find with New Y ork society, it is on account of its formal and almost priggish quiet—the female voice being usually quite lost ... ... vastly to the grouping, and relieve the stiffness of the “shin-pieces” of formal rows of dark-looking 71 James Fenimore Cooper men, and of the floun...