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No invitations to the wedding were sent out, nor any "billets de faire part"; Philippe had his designs. He lodged his wife in an appartement in the rue Saint-Georges, which he bought ready-furnished from Lolotte. Madame Bridau the younger thought it delightful, and her husband rarely set foot in it.
The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of Jean Jacques.
But remember that God is powerful, and not to be mocked with impunity. The day is at hand when you will rue the stubbornness of your heart." A few days afterwards, as Gentilezza, who was with child at the time, was descending the stairs of her palace, her foot slipped, and she fell headlong to the bottom. Her servants raised her in their arms, and found her all but dead.
And for a brief moment he watched, with a glance in which there was at least as much admiration as pity, the Marquis, who was disappearing down the Rue de la Propagande, and who walked at the rapid pace characteristic of monomaniacs. They follow their thoughts instead of heeding objects.
On looking over my notebook I see that it was on December 5 that a large hearse with an "H" on it passed before me in the Rue Frochot. We have no longer even horse to eat. *Perhaps* it is dog? *Maybe* it is rat? I am beginning to suffer from pains in the stomach. We are eating the unknown!
FOUQUET'S cabinet of Models of Antique Monuments, Rue de Lille, F. S. G. HAUPOIS' cabinet of Mechanics. SUE'S cabinet of Anatomy, Rue du Luxembourg. TERSAN'S cabinet of Antiquities, Cloitre St. Honore. VAILLANT'S cabinet of Birds, &c. Rue du Sepulchre, F. S. G. VAN-HORREN'S cabinet of Curiosities, Rue St. Dominique, F. S. G.
Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the Rue Notre-Dame des Champs. His father was a bookbinder and worked for the Religious Houses. Jean was a little weakling child, and his mother nursed him at her breast as she sewed the books, sheet by sheet, with the curved needle of the trade.
Three days later, about Christmas eve, 1575, Pierre having sent his wife to sleep out of the house, set a long branch of broom in the chimney-corner, and bade De la Rue go to bed, but not to sleep. About eleven they heard a great noise as of an impetuous wind and thunder in the chimney: which hearing, Maitre Pierre told him to dress himself, for it was time to be gone.
She had taken lodgings in the Rue Traversière-Saint-Honoré, at the Hôtel des Treize-Cantons, and Réal had immediately set two spies upon her, but their reports were monotonously melancholy. "Very well behaved, very quiet she lives, and is daily with the master and mistress of the hotel, people of mature age. She sees no one, and is spoken of in the highest terms."
Two waiters had taken hold of the villain, who was struggling furiously, and wanted to surrender him to the police. "What's the use?" said Marius. "I have his letter: that's enough. The police will find him when they want him." And, getting back into his cab, "Rue St. Gilles," he ordered, "and lively, if possible." In the Rue St. Gilles the hours were dragging, slow and gloomy.
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