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Among them is that for the more severe treatment of bankrupts, who were able in old France to evade the law of the land and even to take sanctuary. T., Pont-a-Mousson, A. P., ii. 232, Section 11. N., Lille, A. P., iii. 531, Section 54. T., Lyon, A. P., iii. 613. T., Mantes et Meulan, A. P., iii. 672, Section ix. 2. All orders ask for the suppression of begging.
I also ordered the local Meulan police to send enough men to the lock to enforce this command. Lastly, I sent messages all along the river asking the police to report to me on the train the passage of the steam launch. The 10.25 is a slow train, stopping at every station. However, every drawback has its compensation, and these stoppages enabled me to receive and to send telegraphic messages.
His manners, his dress, which was severe in style, and his pale face, all combined to make him for the time a lion, and he drew crowds to his lectures. This was in 1812. M. Guizot was one of the first to foresee and prepare for the restoration. M. Guizot met in society a Mademoiselle Meulan, a literary woman of note, and fancied her.
The one saw his effort was hopeless, the other was only anxious to remove his rival from the realm, and by a peace which the Count of Meulan negotiated Robert recognized Henry as King of England while Henry gave up his fief in the Cotentin to his brother the Duke. Robert's retreat left Henry free to deal sternly with the barons who had forsaken him.
When the Verdurins took her off to Saint-Germain, or to Chatou, or to Meulan, as often as not, if the weather was fine, they would propose to remain there for the night, and not go home until next day. Mme. Verdurin would endeavour to set at rest the scruples of the pianist, whose aunt had remained in Paris: "She will be only too glad to be rid of you for a day.
The possessions of Ivo in Leicestershire passed into the hands of the faithful Robert, Count of Meulan faithful to Henry if not to the rebel who sought his help and somewhat later became the foundation of the earldom of Leicester. Against the most powerful and most dangerous of the traitors, Robert of Belleme, Henry felt strong enough to take steps in the spring of 1102.
Even Waleran of Meulan recognized the new situation of affairs, and gave his aid to the cause of Anjou, and before the close of the year Louis VII formally invested Geoffrey with the duchy. This much of the plan of Henry I was now realized; Stephen never recovered possession of Normandy.
"Right willingly, sir," answered Boucicaut; and a few weeks afterwards, on the 7th of April, 1364, Boucicaut, by stratagem, entered Mantes with his troop, and Du Guesclin, coming up suddenly with his, dashed into the town at a gallop, shouting, "St. Yves! Guesclin! death, death to all Navarrese!" The two warriors did the same next day at the gates of Meulan, three leagues from Mantes.
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