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Upon this foundation supported by eight square stones, each a foot in height, there was laid a slab of white stone five inches thick; four other slabs of the same thickness closed the sides and ends, which, being joined at the angles by Roman cement, formed a species of stone grave or sarcophagus. This was just of depth sufficient to admit the coffin being placed within it.
You are of course aware that it is attributed exclusively to your influence. This is not only the conviction of M. de Salvandy himself and the french government, but I have seen letters from Madrid, from persons entirely unconnected with either, written under the same persuasion.
EMILE SOUVESTRE was born at Morlaix in Brittany, April 15, 1806. His father was a civil engineer, and he intended following the same profession. After his father's death he changed his mind and began to study law, but being ambitious to shine as a writer he soon abandoned the law also.
A battle near Waterloo was expected, but it did not come off. Mr. Morgan and his friend returned to Brussels, and I quote his exact words, as given in the Pall Mall Gazette he «found the town on the verge of a turmoil. This was owing to General von Jarodzky's stupidity, and very nearly involved the town in the same rate which afterwards overwhelmed Louvain.
HENRY II., son of Francis I. and Claude de France, was born at Saint Germain-en-Laye, March 31, 1519. Although he continued his father's persistent persecution of the French Protestants, he was, at the same time, at the head of the league of Protestant princes opposed to Charles V. In this conflict he was successful and took Toul, Metz, and Verdun from Germany in 1552.
4 19 Camargue a vast marshy delta at the mouth of the Rhone See Daudet's "En Camargue," in "Lettres de mon moulin". 4 23 il ne reste plus ... que: 'there remains nothing now, but' Il is impersonal, cf. 5 23, 8 1, 58 28 Ne plus = 'no longer, ne que = 'only, the same ne serving for both plus and que, cf. line 30, 23 3, 27-28, ne ... guère que 5 26, 1 17.
If the government entertained the same opinion as his noble friend of prince de Talleyrand, it would be their duty to represent to His Majesty the king of the French that they could not transact business with such a person.
16 10 Avoir failli aller cf.15 13. 16 11 c'était tout comme colloquial, 'it was just the same'. 16 12 en revenait = revenait de l
Alphonse Daudet was born in the ancient Provençal city of Nîmes, near the Rhône, May 13, 1840. In this same year
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