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These names prove that the art had been taught in many cities and countries: Ogier de Gant, Jean de Savoie, Etienne le Hongre, and Roger de Varennes, all suggest a cosmopolitan and dispersed number of workers, who finally all appeared in Paris. René d'Anjou had in his employ a worker in embroidery, named Pierre du Villant.

I shrunk accordingly from the finances for the reason I have above given, and made M. le Duc d'Orleans so angry by my refusal to accept the office he had proposed to me, that for three weeks he sulked and would not speak to me, except upon unimportant matters. At the end of that time, in the midst of a languishing conversation, he exclaimed, "Very well, then.

The abbé was still trying to convince his godson, when there came a knock at the door, and the old man, opening the door, admitted Bettina! She went straight to Jean and took him by both hands, saying, "I must go to him first, for less than three weeks ago he was suffering!" The young lieutenant stood speechless. "And now to you, M. le Curé, let me confess.

Have Monsieur le vidame and Monsieur le baron any other commands to give me?" "Justin, I am satisfied with you; don't go any farther in the matter without my orders, but keep a close watch here, so that Monsieur le baron may have nothing to fear." "My dear boy," continued the vidame, when they were alone, "go back to your old life, and forget Madame Jules."

Le Noir, against whom we can as yet prove nothing, would claim her as his niece and ward, and get her into his power for the purpose of making way with her, as he did with her father and mother." "Oh, for heaven's sake, sir! no more of that until we have further evidence," said the minister, uneasily, adding, "I will see your very interesting protégé to-morrow."

"Monsieur le Cure," I said, "the Abbe Coignard, my good master, does not wander in his mind, and it is but too true that he has been murdered by a Jew of the name of Mosaide." "In that case," replied the vicar, "he has to see a special favour of God, who willed that he perishes by the hand of a nephew of those who crucified His Son. The behaviour of Providence is always admirable.

"Robert le Diable," a grand opera in five acts, words by Scribe and Delavigne, was first produced at the Académie, Paris, Nov. 21, 1831, with the following cast: ALICE Mlle. DORUS. ISABELLE Mme. In the following year two versions in English, both of them imperfect, were brought out by the rival theatres, Covent Garden and Drury Lane.

He rose to receive us with much grace, and entered into conversation with all the ease and polish of a gentleman "le me porte assez bien aujourd'hui; but I have been very unwell, M. S , so tell me the news."

M. le Comte had opened the near door and was half out of the carriage when a sound caught his ear which was in no way connected with the stranded vehicle and its team of snorting horses. Yet the sound came from horses horses which were on the move not very far away and which even now seemed to be coming nearer. "Who goes there? Maurice, is that you?" called M. le Comte more loudly.

"Just as Monsieur le Baron was speaking of his unknown lady, Lucien smiled in a way that makes me fancy he may know her," said Horace Bianchon, not thinking how dangerous such a natural remark might be. "Goot!" said the banker to himself.