United States or Andorra ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"And did they stick?" she enquired. "Stick?" he gasped. "I mean, did they make good that is, were they PERMANENTLY received?" "Oh, yes! Some of them have become leaders. It's really only a matter of marrying the right man." She was silent as they drove across the Place de la Concorde. "I suppose it's almost out of the question unless one does marry into it," she said finally.
"What I saw was on the night before I left Paris after it I never saw Ashton again to speak to. It was late at night. Do you know the Rue Royale? There is at the end of it a well-known restaurant, close to the Place de la Concorde I was sitting outside this about a quarter to eleven when I saw Ashton and the man I am speaking of pass along the pavement in the direction of the Madeleine.
Logotheti understood at last. 'No, he said, 'I never heard of it. But if that is the case I may be able to do something not that I'm considered orthodox at the Patriarchate! The old gentleman has been told that I'm trying to revive the worship of the Greek gods and have built a temple to Aphrodite Xenia in the Place de la Concorde! 'You're quite capable of it, observed Griggs. 'Oh, quite!
She spoke of the deputies who had just perished with respect, but without effeminate pity; reproaching them even for not having taken sufficiently strong measures. Sometimes her sex had mastery, and we perceived that she had wept over the recollection of her daughter and husband." She was led out to execution on the 10th of November, on that place of blood La Concorde.
The long line of gas lamps, looking a faint yellow beneath the hotel and the Louvre Palace across the way, seemed to deepen and deepen into redder sparks the further the eye followed them to the right as they stretched on to the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysées. To the left the young man, leaning from the balcony, could see the tower of St.
Had the Pont de la Concorde subsisted previously to the erection of the Palais Bourbon, the principal entrance would, probably, have been placed towards the river; but it faces the north, and is preceded by a paltry square, now called Place du Corps Legislatif.
Then it entered the palace garden, leaving its arms there, and proceeded to the Champs Elysees, where a banquet for twelve thousand men was laid. The tables were arranged under tents on each side of the Champs Elysees, along their whole extent, from the Place de la Concorde to the gate de l'Etoile. The tent of the staff was in the middle, half-way up.
Between nine and ten o'clock, I went to the Pont de la Concorde to view the fireworks played off from the Temple of Commerce on the river; but these were, as I understand, of a description far inferior to those exhibited at the last National Fete of the 14th of July, the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille.
The first thing that attracted our notice in a shop window was a coloured illustration representing the funeral procession of Gambetta, as it wound slowly past the veiled statue of Strasburg on the Place de la Concorde. These displays of patriotic feeling are forbidden, but they come to the fore all the same.
There would be rain soon ah, there it came! the great drops hissing along the pavement. He pushed on to the river, careless of the storm, soothed, indeed, by the cool dashes of rain in his face and eyes. The Place de la Concorde seemed to him as day, so brilliant was the glare of its lamps.
Word Of The Day