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Josephine made no reply to this flattery, but drew the black lace veil closely over her face, and hastened to leave the fiacre, and entered the house. "Fouche," she whispered, as she ascended the staircase, "my heart beats as violently as it did when I drove to the Tuileries to be presented to Marie Antoinette. It was the first time that I spoke with the Queen of France."
The election, thanks to me, was as good as made; and, our man once in Paris, the great Seducer in the Tuileries had only to say five words to him, and this dynastic opposer could have been turned inside out like one of this own stockings, and made to do whatever was wanted of him." "Pretty well played that!" said the colonel. "I recognize my Maxime."
The number of spectators, as we read underneath the numerous coloured prints which represent this spectacle, was 600,000; but though, without doubt, the gardens of the Tuileries are very large, it is probable this figure is a considerable overstatement, for this number would have been three-fourths of the whole population of Paris.
Try and see the duchesse, who must be at the Tuileries, and tell her that I am retiring to Rambouillet, where I shall wait for the turn of events. "Your affectionate, "The coward," said Valef. "And these are the men for whom we risk our heads," murmured Pompadour. "You are mistaken, my dear marquis," said Brigaud, "we risk our heads on our own account I hope, and not for others.
This triumvirate was in terms of good understanding at the Tuileries. Lameths and Duport saw the king. Barnave, who at first dared not venture to visit the chateau, subsequently went there secretly. The utmost precaution and concealment attended these interviews.
The message of George III. to Parliament was known to the First Consul when, on Sunday, March 13, 1803, the ambassador of England presented himself at the Tuileries. Bonaparte was still in the apartment of his wife; when Lord Whitworth was announced, he entered immediately into the salon. The crowd was large; the entire corps diplomatique was present.
This is the second volume. It was picked up in the Tuileries after that palace was sacked." I told him mine must be the preceding volume, because I did not know there was any continuation. The prayers of the church had not been my study. "Where did you get yours, Lazarre?" "Madame de Ferrier gave it to me.
During the first half hour after the invasion of the palace a great deal of money and many other valuables disappeared; but after that time it was death to appropriate anything, even if it were of little value. Soon the gardens of the Tuileries were white with papers flung from the windows of the palace, many of them of great historical value.
Sooner or later I shall dance in an imperial quadrille. I know what you are going to say: 'How will you dare? But I SHALL dare. I am afraid of my husband; he is soft, smooth, irreproachable; everything that you know; but I am afraid of him horribly afraid of him. And yet I shall arrive at the Tuileries. But that will not be this winter, nor perhaps next, and meantime I must live.
The mob was already surging in at the court of the Tuileries, and thundering against the gates of the palace. The princess and her few companions immediately set out on foot, to pass through the garden of the Tuileries, the Place de la Concorde, and to cross the river, to obtain the protection of the Chamber of Deputies.
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