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During the reigns of both Napoleon and Louis XVIII considerable sums were expended in its refurbishing so that it was not wholly a bygone when finally the French authorities made of it, if not the chief, at least the most popular monument historique of all France. And yet the aspect of Versailles is sadly wearying.
That malevolence which fastens itself upon men who have the misfortune to be somewhat separated from the crowd has, because there is always more profit in saying ill than good, attributed to me several works on Bonaparte; among others, 'Les Memoires secrets d'un Homnae qui ne l'a pas quitte', par M. B , and 'Memoires secrets sur Napoleon Bonaparte, par M. de B , and 'Le Precis Historique sur Napoleon'. The initial of my name has served to propagate this error.
Humboldt, Relation Historique de son Voyage aux Régions Equinoctiales du Nouveau Continent. 2 vols. 4to. Humboldt, Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne, Paris, 5 vols. 8vo. 1811.
Joutel, who was one of La Salle's party, and afterward wrote an account of the enterprise, entitled Journal Historique, published in Paris, 1713. Its fidelity is as evident upon its face, as is the simplicity of the historian.
The ages and the generations have worked their will on them, and the wind and the weather have had much to say; but disfigured and dishonoured as they are, with the bruises of their marbles and the patience of their ruin, there is nothing like them in the world, and the long succession of their faded, conscious faces makes of the quiet waterway they overhang a <I>promenade historique</I> of which the lesson, however often we read it, gives, in the depth of its interest, an incomparable dignity to Venice.
In an article by the learned M. Longnon on L'Elément historique de Huon de Bordeaux, a note is given on the name of Guinemer: "In Huon de Bordeaux," writes M. Longnon, "the author of the Prologue des Lorrains makes Guinemer the son of Saint Bertin, second Abbot of Sithieu, an abbey which took the name of this blessed man and was the foundation of the city of Saint-Omer, which the poem of Huon de Bordeaux makes the birthplace of Count Guinemer's daughter.
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"Those letters belonged to the public." "How can any letters belong to the public that weren't written to the public?" Mrs. Touchett interposed. "Well, these were, in a sense. A personality as big as Margaret Aubyn's belongs to the world. Such a mind is part of the general fund of thought. It's the penalty of greatness one becomes a monument historique.
"They have le pour" says the Journal Historique for the year 1694, page 6; "which means that the courier who marks the billets puts 'pour' before their names as, 'Pour M. le Prince de Soubise; instead of which, when he marks the lodging of one who is not royal, he does not put pour, but simply the name as, 'Le Duc de Gesvres, le Duc de Mazarin." This pour on a door indicated a prince or a favourite.
In M. Racinet's sumptuous work, "Le Costume Historique," published in Paris in 20 volumes , there are reproduced some old miniatures from the collection of M. Ambroise Didot. These represent with all the advantages of the most highly finished printing in gold, silver, and colours portraits of these native sovereigns seated on their State chairs, with the umbrella, as a sign of royalty.
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