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The eighteen looked at each other open-mouthed, and good Daddy La Bretagne scratched his head, and then said: "What she asks is quite right, and we must give way," he replied. Then they explained themselves, and came to an understanding.
Full ten minutes he rested thus, till a managing clerk roused him with the draft prospectus of a new issue of shares, very desirable, in Manifold and Topping's. That afternoon he left work early and made his way to the Restaurant Bretagne. Only Madame Lamotte was in. Would Monsieur have tea with her? Soames bowed.
"I asked particularly, and the word came that a passenger named Randolph Carringford had sailed yesterday on the La Bretagne for New York." "Then that point seems settled," admitted Tom, though disliking to acknowledge the fact. "Still, something might happen to prevent his reaching New York City, or Virginia."
"And if the vassals of M. Fouquet are sufficiently numerous to form a garrison?" "That is what I want to know; you have placed your finger on the question." "And if they are not fortifying, sire?" "You will travel about Bretagne, listening and judging." "Then I am a king's spy?" said D'Artagnan, bluntly, twisting his mustache. "No, monsieur." "Your pardon sire; I spy on your majesty's account."
Aquitania, a third part of ancient Gaul, now containing Guienne, Gascony, etc. Arecomici Volcae, Caesar plants garrisons among them, G. vii. 7 Caesar orders twelve galleys to be built there, C. i. 36 Arles, see Arelate Armorici, the ancient people of Armorica, a part of Gallia Celtica, now Bretagne; they assemble in great numbers to attack L. Roscius in his winter quarters, G. v. 53
'Les cinq Chambres des Enquetes', which are like our Common Pleas, and Court of Exchequer. 'La Tournelle', which is the court for criminal justice, and answers to our Old Bailey and King's Bench. There are in all twelve parliaments in France: 1. Paris 2. Toulouse 3. Grenoble 4. Bourdeaux 5. Dijon 6. Rouen 7. Aix en Provence 8. Rennes en Bretagne 9. Pau en Navarre 10. Metz 11.
To it belongs the region of the Ardennes, lying between France and Belgium, the Eifelgebirge, and a new disturbance of the Vosges, by which that region was also extended. The island of Bretagne was greatly increased by the Devonian deposits, and Bohemia also gained in dimensions, while the central plateau of France remained much the same as before.
The great Count of Bretagne was in his way; William feared him as he fears thee; and in his own court, and amongst his own men, the great Count of Bretagne died by poison. For thy doom, open or secret, William, however, could find ample excuse." "How, boy? What charge can the Norman bring against a free Englishman?" "His kinsman Alfred," answered Haco, "was blinded, tortured, and murdered.
Wace in the twelfth century wrote in French his "Brut d'Angleterre." Brutus was the mythical son of Aeneas, and the founder of Britain. The Britons were settled in Cornwall, Wales and Bretagne, and were distinguished for traditionary legends, which had been collected by Godfrey of Monmouth in 1138.
There, were to be seen the flags of Bretagne and Anjou, of Burgundy, of Flanders, even the ensign of France, which the volunteers from that country had assumed; and right in the midst of this Capital of War, the gorgeous pavilion of William himself, with a dragon of gold before it, surmounting the staff, from which blazed the Papal gonfanon.
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