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'Votre tres humble serviteur, Letter from the Syndic of Genoa to Lord Hardwicke. 'Agreez, Milord, les sentimens de haute estime et de reconnaissance que nous et la Ville entiere vous devons par la part genereuse que vous avez pris pour la conciliation de nos differences. 'De V Se Milord, 'Tres-humble et tres obeissant serviteur 'le Syndic GENES: 12 Avril, 1849. Commandant le Vaisseau
It is known that Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffe and his mother quarrelled. "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them.
Two or three idle street-boys were dancing and stamping about this pool; and when I asked one of them whether the execution had taken place, he began dancing more madly than ever, and shrieked out with a loud fantastical, theatrical voice, "Venez tous Messieurs et Dames, voyez ici le sang du monstre Lacenaire, et de son compagnon he traitre Avril," or words to that effect; and straightway all the other gamins screamed out the words in chorus, and took hands and danced round the little puddle.
Some forms of expression used by Bonaparte are occasionally met with, but they are awkwardly introduced, and often with bad taste. It has been reported that the pamphlet was written by M. Bertrand, formerly an officer of the army of the Vistula, and a relation of the Comte de Simeon, peer of France. Murray; Bruxelles, De Mat, 20 Avril 1817. This work merits a note.
And Avril contains a number of similar observations which are valuable in the extreme as aids to judgement and pleasure. But the book has written all over it a confession, that this is a department of writing which the author is content, comparatively, to neglect. The essays are short and, again comparatively, they are detached: they examine each poem by itself, not in its general aspect.
[Footnote 487: Montcalm au Ministre de la Guerre, 24 Avril, 1757; Relation de l'Ambassade des Cinq Nations
* The following passage is an extract from M. Barillon's letters kept in the Dépôt des Affaires étrangères at Versailles. It was lately communicated to the author while in France. "Convention verbale arrêtée le 1 Avril 1681. Charles 2 s'engage
It is raining heavily to-day rather damp for the electors, but a capital thing for the country and for my shrubs. The further course of the election brought him the following letters from the Comte de Paris: Chateau d'Eu, le 12 avril.
However, the magistrate ordered that she be confined in prison until the First of April following, "comme un poisson d' Avril." In England, the custom of April-fooling is practiced very much as it is in the United States. "A knowing boy will despatch a younger brother to see a public statue descend from its pedestal at a particular appointed hour.
Le Ministre a Thury, 28 Avril, 1697. The other letter to Thury, written two years before, is of the same tenor. The famous Ourehaoue, who had been for years under the influence of the priests, and who, as Charlevoix says, died "un vrai Chretien," being told on his death-bed how Christ was crucified by the Jews, exclaimed with fervor: "Ah! why was not I there?
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