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Updated: May 12, 2025
If the Germans had imitated the Spaniards, if they had said: whatever be the consequences, we will not bear a foreign yoke: they would still be a nation, and their princes would not be dangling, I do not say in the anti-chambers of the emperor Napoleon, but in those of all the persons on whom a ray of his favor is fallen.
It is well known by what a gross insult Bonaparte rewarded their complaisance. "I proposed to give them rank in my army, and they declined it; I offered them places in the administration, and they refused them; but when I opened my anti-chambers, they rushed into them in crowds." They had no longer any asylum but in his power.
But where is the bed-room you speak of, Ludovico? these are only anti-chambers to the great drawing-room. I remember them in their splendour! 'The bed, my Lord, replied Ludovico, 'they told me, was in a room that opens beyond the saloon, and terminates the suite. 'O, here is the saloon, said the Count, as they entered the spacious apartment, in which Emily and Dorothee had rested.
It were to be desired that some of these accusations were applicable to those who are so much scandalized at them: but they are not littlenesses the littleness is in him who condescends to report them; and I have often wondered that men of genius should make a traffic of gleaning from the refuse of anti-chambers, and retailing the anecdotes of pages and footmen!
It were to be desired that some of these accusations were applicable to those who are so much scandalized at them: but they are not littlenesses the littleness is in him who condescends to report them; and I have often wondered that men of genius should make a traffic of gleaning from the refuse of anti-chambers, and retailing the anecdotes of pages and footmen!
Some of the tribunes, who attached a real meaning to the constitution, were desirous of establishing in their assembly an opposition analogous to that of England; as if the rights, which that constitution professed to secure, had anything of reality in them, and the pretended division of the bodies of the state were anything more than a mere affair of etiquette, a distinction between the different anti-chambers of the first consul, in which magistrates under different names could hold together, I confess that I saw with pleasure the aversion entertained by a small number of the tribunes, to rival the counsellors of state in servility.
"At last, after a long walk through chambers and anti-chambers without end, hung round with mirrors and ornaments, they reached the apartment of the young princes, where they found the four incomparable creatures lounging on four ottomans, sighing their hearts out, because they had 'nothing to do.
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