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In the fourteenth century, Issoudun still had sixteen or seventeen thousand inhabitants, remains of a population double that number in the time of Rigord. Charles VII. possessed a mansion which still exists, and was known, as late as the eighteenth century, as the Maison du Roi.
I needed all the consolation that could be derived from an inscription, placed under a bust of Moliere, which read: maison ou naquit Moliere, to raise my courage after the mean impression the house had first made upon me. The room, which had been prepared for us on the fourth floor, was small but cheerful, decently furnished, and inexpensive.
"How nice and how amusing she was, poor little girl, until the end of the summer, but the twentieth of September dissipated her dream. We had come back from breakfasting at the Maison Lafitte and were passing Saint-Germain, when she felt thirsty and asked us to stop at Pecq. "For some time past, she had been getting very heavy, and that inconvenienced her very much.
And on the night that Maison and Sanderson had come to him, he thought he had seen in Sanderson's eyes a cold menace, a threat, that meant nothing less than death for the banker, if the latter had refused to write the bill of sale. For, of course, the judge knew that the banker was being forced to make out the bill of sale.
She had, for Kitty had fallen in love with the Frenchman. And Gaston? He walked back to the house beside Madame, thinking of Kitty, and humming the gay refrain of the song he had been singing 'Je passe devant ta maison Ouvre ta porte, Bonjour, Suzon. Decidedly it was a case of love at first sight on both sides.
Finally a treaty of peace was arranged, by which, at the death of Charles-le-Téméraire, according to usage, Louis XI absorbed the proprietary rights in the castle and made it a Maison Royale, bestowing it upon one of his favourites, Dame Gillette Hennequin.
Monsieur... had talked French all the time... dictees... lectures... Le Conscrit... Waterloo... La Maison Deserte... his careful voice reading on and on... until the room disappeared.. .. She must do that for her German girls.
I hummed noiselessly: "si vous passez par ma vil-le n'oubliez pas ma maison; on y mang-e de bonne sou-pe Ton Ton Tay-ne; faite de merde et les onions, Ton Ton Tayne Ton Ton Ton,"
Maison looked long at her, and decided it was not remarkable that Dale had become infatuated with Peggy, for the girl was handsome. Maison had never bothered with women, and he yielded to a suspicion of sentiment as he looked down at Peggy. But, as always, the sentiment was not spiritual. Dale had intimated that the girl was his mistress.
Flaubert's gigantic dissatisfaction with life, his really philosophic sense of its vanity, would have overweighted a writer so thoroughly equipped for his work as the writer of "Boule de Suif" and "La Maison Tellier."
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