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Let us be reassured, it will always exist, for it always has! Our friend Alexandre Dumas fils, to make an agreeable paradox, has boasted of its advantages in the preface to the Dame aux Camelias, hasn't he? And you want me not to be sad! I think that we shall soon see abominable things, thanks to the inept stubbornness of the Right.
A companion in misfortune was Noel Alexandre, a French ecclesiastical historian who lived at the same period and shared Dupin's views with regard to the supremacy of the Pope. The results of his researches were not very favourable to the Court of Rome. The Inquisition examined and condemned the work. Its author was excommunicated by Innocent XI. in 1684.
I'll have to ask you to stand aside." "Come up here, Mr. Pincornet," said Cary, from the Justice's Bench. "I want to ask you about a gentleman of your name whom I had the honour to meet in London M. le Vicomte de Pincornet, a very gallant man " "That," said the dancing master, "would be my cousin Alexandre.
Anyhow, all agog with curiosity, I followed her into the dining room and Alexandre followed me, anxious to take part in the rejoicing. In the window stood a big cage, enclosing the family of white mice. I remember it as a very big cage indeed; no doubt I should find it shrunken to quite moderate dimensions if I could see it again.
And that was how the mere name of Alexandre Dumas saved the business office of The Great City five hundred francs." In order to hasten his liberation from debt and his settlement with creditors, Balzac tried to augment the sums which he received from editors and publishers with the profits from various speculations.
In the early days grandpére had two big stores, back to back; whole-sale, Chartres Street; retail, Royal, where now all that is left of it is the shop of Mme. Alexandre. Both her husband and she were with papa in the retail store, until it diminish' that he couldn' keep them, and in the time of President Roosevelt some New York men they bought him out.
The illustrious astronomer, despite the persistence with which Alexandre refused to give up his secret to him, drew a report, the few following extracts from which will, we think, suffice to edify the reader: "The pieces that the First Consul charged me to examine did not contain enough of detail to justify an opinion.
"Already," said Castanado, "we chanze to have three or four. Mademoiselle has that story of her grand'mère, and Mr. Chezter he has sir, you'll not care if I tell that? Mr. Chezter has the sequal to that, and written by his uncle!" "Yes," Chester put in, "but Ovide Landry finds it was printed years ago." "Proof!" proclaimed Mme. Alexandre, "proof that 'tis good to print ag-ain!
In 1802, Jean Alexandre, a reputed natural son of Jean Jacques Rousseau, brought out a TELEGRAPHE INTIME, or secret telegraph, which appears to have been a step-by-step apparatus. The inventor concealed its mode of working, but it was believed to be electrical, and there was a needle which stopped at various points on a dial.
The French Commissioner was Marshal Berthier, the Prince of Neufchatel, and his secretary, Count Alexandre de La Borde. The Austrian Commissioner was the Prince of Trautmannsdorf: M. Thedelitz was his secretary.
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