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I have been astonished to find in the houses of rich landed proprietors in Anjou and Berri, brick-floored bedrooms, carpetless salons, dejeuner served on the bare table, and servants in waiting with their unstockinged feet thrust in sabots. This condition of things is slowly changing, but there is another and yet more formidable obstacle to the progress of ideas in isolated rural districts.
For this reason he and the old woman industriously circulated the report that my son had poisoned the Dauphine and the Duc de Berri.
Dauphine resembles very much the prints of Marie Antoinette, in the profile especially. She is not, however, beautiful, her features being too strong, but they announce a great deal of character, and the princess whom Bonaparte used to call the man of the family. She seemed very attentive to her devotions. The Duchess of Berri seemed less immersed in the ceremony, and yawned once or twice.
Boyd, who have lived in France the last 14 years, and have a terrace that overlooks the Boulevards, so there we sat very commodiously and saw the King and the Duchesses de Berri and Angoulême, in an open Calèche, pass through the double row of troops which lined the Boulevards from one end to the other, and a beautiful sight it was. Mr.
Message from the Tuileries My interview with the King My appointment to the office of Prefect of the Police Council at the Tuileries Order for arrests Fouches escape Davoust unmolested Conversation with M. de Blacas The intercepted letter, and time lost Evident understanding between Murat and Napoleon Plans laid at Elba My departure from Paris The post-master of Fins My arrival at Lille Louis XVIII. detained an hour at the gates His majesty obliged to leave France My departure for Hamburg The Duc de Berri at Brussels.
The counter-police of the chateau had denounced to her Royal Highness Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orleans, who made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of dragoons a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense.
It was added that he had been seen at Strasburg; that it was even believed that he had been in Paris; and that the plan was that he should enter France by the east at the moment of the explosion, whilst the Due de Berri was disembarking in the west.
They made a mere servant of him, and used to talk to him in a tone of very improper familiarity, saying, "Berri, go and fetch me my work; bring me that table; give me my scissors." Their manner of behaving to him was perfectly shameful.
This was signed by the king in council, the Dukes of Berri and Burgundy, and several other nobles and ecclesiastics, by the Chancellor of Burgundy, and other knights attached to the duke.
The adjoining salon, the furniture of which was hidden under unbleached covers, contained nothing more remarkable than a marble bust of Henry V. and a full-length statuette of Chateaubriand, which were on the mantelpiece, and on each side of a window plaster busts of Mme. de Berri and her infant child. Towards the close of his life Chateaubriand was almost in his second childhood.
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