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Joseph, Michilimackinac, Ouiatenon, Sandusky, Miami, Presqu'île, Niagara, Le Boeuf, Venango, Fort Pitt, and one or two others of lesser importance. Of all the posts from Niagara and Pitt westward, Detroit alone was able to survive the conspiracy. For the rest "there was but one unvaried tale of calamity and ruin." It was a continued series of disasters to the white men.
The French built a fort on a promontory in the lake a promontory almost an island Presque Isle; and there, where the waters begin to run the other way, that is, toward the gulf, they built still another which they called Le Boeuf, an easier portage than the Chautauqua. From the former fort the city of Erie, a grimy, busy manufacturing city, has grown.
In the lower city, at scarcely a hundred paces from the Castle of the States, between the mall and the castle, in a sufficiently handsome street, then called Rue Vieille, and which must, in fact, have been very old, stood a venerable edifice, with pointed gables, of squat but large dimensions, ornamented with three windows looking into the street on the first floor, with two in the second and with a little oeil de boeuf in the third.
Martin, the boeuf gras on Easter Monday, I'm your man for either: but to sit bolt upright on your saddle for three, maybe four hours; to be stared at by every bourgeois from the Rue du Bac; to be pointed at with pink parasols and compared with some ribbon-vender of the Boulevards, par Saint Louis! I can't even bear to think of it!
From our position on the Fordoche to the Bayou Boeuf, in rear of the Federal camp at Berwick's Bay, was over a hundred miles. The route followed the Grosse-Tête to Plaquemine on the Mississippi, and to escape observation Plaquemine must be passed in the night. Below this point there was an interior road that reached the Lafourche some distance below Donaldsonville.
Washington remembered it well. It was here that he found rest and shelter on the winter journey homeward from his mission to Fort Le Boeuf. He was in no less need of rest at this moment; for recent fever had so weakened him that he could hardly sit his horse.
The latter thanked the testy Gaul, with his customary grave courtesy, and continued his journey to Fort Le Boeuf. It was a structure characteristic of the place and period; a rude but effective redoubt of logs and clay, with the muzzles of cannon pouting from the embrasures, and more than two hundred boats and canoes for the trip down the river.
Almost any afternoon you might have seen this vehicle on the Terre aux Boeuf, or Bayou, or Tchoupitoulas Road; and because of the brilliant beauty of its occupants it became known from all other volantes as the "meteor." Frowenfeld's visits were not infrequent; he insisted on Clotdlde's knowing just what was being done with her money.
With a great rush of vision he seemed to see the whole world of mankind rising against him in its centre the form and face of a scornful courtier the Répentigny, withering his pretensions by one contemptuous glance, to the applause of the Oeil de Boeuf.
"La Marck et Mirabeau," p. 32. See his letter to Lord North proposing peace, date December 1st, 1780. "Gustave III. et la Cour de France," i., p. 357. Chambrier, i., p. 430; "Gustave III.," etc., i., p. 353. "Gustave III.," etc., i., p. 353. "Mémoires de Weber," i., p. 50. "On s'arrêtait dans les rues, on se parlait sans se connaître." Madame de Campan, ch. ix. L'Oeil de Boeuf.
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