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Unfortunately she had mislaid or lost Mademoiselle Reisz's card, and looking up her address in the city directory, she found that the woman lived on Bienville Street, some distance away.
Such was Bienville, the hardy son of a Canadian father. A little later we have the New Orleans of 1723. It is a low swamp, overgrown with ragged forests, and cut up into a thousand islands by ruts and pools of stagnant water. There is a small cleared space along the river's channel but even this being only partly reclaimed from the surrounding marsh, is often inundated.
"And the doctor?" asks Camille, as he and the messenger are hurrying side by side out of Exchange alley into Bienville street. " was there yesterday and the day before." They reach the house. Attalie meets her counselor alone at the top of the stairs. "Li bien malade," she whispers, weeping; "he is very ill." " wants to make his will?" asks Camille. All their talk is in their bad French.
This was undertaken; but with no funds to procure the services of assistants, and with the difficulty of obtaining the right class of men for these positions from the army, the progress made has not been as rapid or the work as effectual as it would have been under more favorable circumstances. Partial returns have been received, as follows: From Bienville parish 248 contracts.
A saffron heat-haze hung over the river and the city, robbed alike from the yellow waters of the one and the pestilent moisture of the other. It would have been strange indeed if this capital of Louisiana, brought hither to a swamp from the sands of Biloxi many years ago by the energetic Bienville, were not visited from time to time by the scourge!
Where she owned to so much culpability, there surely must have been the entire measure of guilt! For the time being, he forgot Bienville, in order to review the conversation of the last half-hour. Diane had not carried herself like a woman who had nothing with which to reproach herself; and that a woman should be obliged to reproach herself at all was a humiliation to her womanhood.
Beloiseau, I'm the mother of Geoffry Chester. You know him, I believe?" "Oh, is that possible? He is my esteem' frien', madame. Will you" he began to dust a lone chair. "No, thank you; I came to find Geoffry's quarters. I left the hotel with my memorandum, but must have dropped it. I remember only Bienville Street." "He's not there any mo'. Sinze only two day' he's move'. Mrs.
"Sir, if you please. You are, I think, Mr. Chester, notary public and attorney at law?" "That is my name and trade, sir." Evidently Mr. Geoffry Chester was also an American, a Southerner. "Pardon," said his detainer, "I have only my business card." He tendered it: "Marcel Castanado, Masques et Costumes, No. 312, rue Royale, entre Bienville et Conti."
He led the way through the empty Rue Chartres, turned to the right at the Rue Bienville, and stopped before an unpretentious house some three doors from the corner.
The French on the Allegheny River; the Buried Plates.% With Louisburg back in their possession and no territory lost, the French went on more vigorously than ever with their preparations to shut the British out of the Mississippi valley; and as but one highway to the valley, the Ohio River, was still unguarded, the governor of Canada, in 1749, dispatched Céloron de Bienville with a band of men in twenty-three birch-bark canoes to take formal possession of the valley.