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His death, which happened on the 2nd of March, 1791, was considered a public calamity; all Paris attended his funeral; there was a general mourning throughout France, and his remains were deposited in the receptacle which had just been consecrated aux grands hommes, in the name of la patrie reconnaissante.
Holbach's Système de la Nature ou des Lois du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral. Voltaire's Dieu et les Hommes; oeuvre théologique, mais raisonnable . No one writer, indeed, of the eighteenth century contributed so many books to the flames as Voltaire.
The blocking of all windows on three sides had an obvious significance: les hommes were not supposed to see anything which went on in the world without; les hommes might, however, look their fill on a little washing-shed, on a corner of what seemed to be another wing of the building, and on a bleak lifeless abject landscape of scrubby woods beyond which constituted the view from the ten windows on the right.
Comme milor Coralie! n'est ce pas que tu n'aimes que les hommes faits, ma bichette?" My lord said, with a grin, "You flatter me, Madame Brack."
I know not what had be- come of the bones of the dragon. There are two shabby old inns at Arles, which compete closely for your custom. I forget which of these establishments I selected; whichever it was, I wished very much that, it had been the other. The two stand together on the Place des Hommes, a little public square of Arles, which somehow quite misses its effect.
Noticing General D'Hubert getting restive and trying to place a word, the old émigré raised his arm and added with dignity: "I've been a soldier, too. I would never dare to suggest a doubtful step to the man whose name my niece is to bear. I tell you that entre gallants hommes an affair can be always arranged." "But, saperlotte, Monsieur le Chevalier, it's fifteen or sixteen years ago.
He spoke but little at first to his new companions, but listened to pick up their characters. Neither his noble Servant nor his servants could read or write; and as he often made entries in his tablets, he impressed them with some awe. One of his entries was, "Le peu que sont les hommes."
Lord Saxingham at last returned busy, bustling, important, and good-humoured as usual. "Well, Flory, well? glad to see you quite blooming, I declare, never saw you with such a colour monstrous like me, certainly. We always had fine complexions and fine eyes in our family. But I'm rather late first bell rung we /ci-devant jeunes hommes/ are rather long dressing, and you are not dressed yet, I see."
On they came, two deep, with lances high over their shoulders, heads and heels well down, while the green tufts flew behind them, "A moi, hommes d'armes!" shouted the Abbot. But too late. The French turned right and left. To form was impossible, ere the human whirlwind would be upon them. Another half-minute and with a shout of "A bear! a bear.
Know one Frenchman and you know France. I have had Dehors under my eye two years, and I can mount his enthusiasm at a word. He took hommes d'esprit to denote men of letters. Frenchmen have destroyed their nobility, so, for the sake of excitement, they put up the literary man not to worship him; that they can't do; it's to put themselves in a state of effervescence.
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