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Unluckily, at Savigny, as in most of those gorgeous Parisian summer palaces, which the parvenus in commerce and speculation have made their prey, the chatelains were not in harmony with the chateau.
"Where is your majesty going to send me?" "Are you acquainted with Bretagne?" "Have you any friends there?" "In Bretagne? No, ma foi!" "So much the better. Do you know anything about fortifications?" "I believe I do, sire," said D'Artagnan, smiling. "That is to say you can readily distinguish a fortress from a simple fortification, such as is allowed to chatelains or vassals?"
"Where is your majesty going to send me?" "Are you acquainted with Bretagne?" "No, sire." "Have you any friends there?" "In Bretagne? No, ma foi!" "So much the better. Do you know anything about fortifications?" "I believe I do, sire," said D'Artagnan, smiling. "That is to say you can readily distinguish a fortress from a simple fortification, such as is allowed to chatelains or vassals?"
They were a funny contrast to the people who came for the Concours Hippique, and the Race Week. One saw then a great influx of automobiles there were balls at the Casino and many pretty, well-dressed women, of both worlds, much en evidence. The châtelains from the neighbouring châteaux appeared and brought their guests. For that one week Boulogne was quite fashionable.
Unluckily, at Savigny, as in most of those gorgeous Parisian summer palaces, which the parvenus in commerce and speculation have made their prey, the chatelains were not in harmony with the chateau.
LIGHT STEEL TOYS. These include chatelains, watch chains, keys, seals, purses, slides, beads, waist buckles, dress swords, steel buttons for court dresses, bodkins, spectacle frames, knitting and netting implements, and steel snuffers. Shoe and knee buckles, which were once universally worn, alone employed five thousand persons in their manufacture, when it was the staple trade of the town.
The counts of the high grounds, and those of Friesland, enjoyed at the utmost but a fortuitous privilege of continuance in their rank. Several foreigners had gained a footing and an authority in the country; among others Wickmand, from whom descended the chatelains of Ghent; and the counts of Holland, and Heriold, a Norman prince who had been banished from his own country.
During the war of 1870 they, like many other châtelains, had Prussian soldiers in their house. The following characteristic anecdote of the Marquise was told to me by her son: "There are still to be seen at La Grange two little cannon which had been given to Lafayette by the Garde Nationale.
Unluckily, at Savigny, as in most of those gorgeous Parisian summer palaces, which the parvenus in commerce and speculation have made their prey, the chatelains were not in harmony with the chateau.
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