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"Talking of broken chains there's little Mme. de Blinville, who is no tigress. Do you see her in the second tier, opposite?" "It becomes her very well to have broken, as you say, the marriage chain; she looks very well this season." "Oh! there is the beautiful Duchess de Saint-Prix; all the world is here to-night I don't speak of ourselves." "It is a regular opera night what a festive scene!"
His uneasiness continued; the eye close to his scar became moist; according to M. de Thou, he bled at the nose. He felt in his pocket for a handkerchief to use, but could not find one. "My people," said he, "have not given me my necessaries this morning: there is great excuse for them; they were too much hurried." At his request, Saint-Prix had a handkerchief brought to him.
At Ecouen she was always reading " "And you, what used you to do?" "I, sir? Oh, I thought about nothing but acting comely. It was my passion!" "But why do you so rarely visit Madame de V ? We have a country house at Saint-Prix, where we could have a comedy acted, in a little theatre which I have built there." "If I have not visited Madame de V , whose fault is it?" she replied.
At Ecouen she was always reading " "And you, what used you to do?" "I, sir? Oh, I thought about nothing but acting comely. It was my passion!" "But why do you so rarely visit Madame de V ? We have a country house at Saint-Prix, where we could have a comedy acted, in a little theatre which I have built there." "If I have not visited Madame de V , whose fault is it?" she replied.
This hall communicated with the apartments, and could seat about two hundred persons. It was erected as if by magic, and was opened, while awaiting the arrival of the French troupe, with two or three representations given by the Italian comedians of the King of Saxony. The actors from Paris were: For tragedy, Messieurs Saint-Prix and Talma and Mademoiselle Georges.
In connection with the "dainty taste" of Jacobins for silk dresses M. Berryat Saint-Prix cites the following answer of a Jacobin of 1851 to the judge d'instruction of Rheims; on the objection being made to him that the Republic, as he understood it, could not last long, he replied: "Possibly, but say it lasts three months.
M. Dazincourt was appointed director of the theater, and set out from Paris with Messieurs Talma, Lafon, Saint-Prix, Damas, Despres, Varennes, Lacave; Mesdames Duchesnoir, Raucourt, Talma, Bourgoin, Rose Dupuis, Grosand, and Patrat; and everything was in order before the arrival of the sovereigns.
At Bordeaux, a huge scaffold is put up, authorized by the Military Committee, with seven doors, two of which are large and like barn-doors, called a four-bladed guillotine, so as to work faster and do more. The warrant and orders for its construction bear date Thermidor 3 and 8, year II. Berryat Saint-Prix, 285. Examples of revolutionary taxes.
This hall communicated with the apartments, and could seat about two hundred persons. It was erected as if by magic, and was opened, while awaiting the arrival of the French troupe, with two or three representations given by the Italian comedians of the King of Saxony. The actors from Paris were: For tragedy, Messieurs Saint-Prix and Talma and Mademoiselle Georges.
At Ecouen she was always reading " "And you, what used you to do?" "I, sir? Oh, I thought about nothing but acting comely. It was my passion!" "But why do you so rarely visit Madame de V ? We have a country house at Saint-Prix, where we could have a comedy acted, in a little theatre which I have built there." "If I have not visited Madame de V , whose fault is it?" she replied.