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Updated: June 18, 2025
The previous night in the cars I had found myself the only woman among some half dozen French military officers, who paid me the most polite attention. They were charmed that I made no objection to their cigarettes, talked with me on various topics, criticised McClellan as a general, and were enthusiastic on the subject of our country generally. About midnight they prepared a grand repast from their traveling-bags, to which they gave me a cordial invitation. I begged to contribute my mesquin supply of grapes and brioches, and the supper was a considerable event. Their canteens were filled with red wines, and one cup served the whole company. They drank my health and that of the President of the United States. Afterward we had vocal music, two of the officers being good singers. They sang Beranger's songs and the charming serenade from Lalla Rookh. I finally expressed a desire to hear the Marseillaise. This seemed to take them by surprise, but one of the singers, declaring that he had "rien
Another friend was the cake man, dressed all in white, with his basket of brioches and madeleines on his head then there were the inevitable Africans with fezes on their heads and bundles of silks crêpes-de-chine and ostrich feathers, that one sees at every plage. I don't think they did much business. The public was not all distinguished.
He was not a man who cared for gaiety, but should the Lorraines be insufficiently amused he gave them balls insufficiently fed, he sent for flour and sugar; all the flour and sugar that France could spare; more, much more, than Paris had, and at his bidding the cake-shops flowered with eclairs, millefeuilles, brioches, choux a la creme, and cakes more marvellous with German names.
He was frankly delighted with what I gave him, saying only that it was too much, and we separated mutually pleased. "I sauntered on, lingering by the way to avoid waiting at Creil; consequently, I was just able to procure my ticket and a paper of brioches at the buffet when the English train came in.
The little shop was crowded people standing and making frantic dashes into the kitchen for chocolate and muffins. The club-room upstairs was quite nice painted white, a good glass so that we could arrange our hair a little, one or two tables and we were attended to at once. They brought us the spécialité of the place light, hot brioches with grated ham inside very good and very indigestible.
About them flowers grew in boxes, a green awning hung over them, their meal of purple fruit, coffee, and hot brioches was served from fantastic green china over which blue dragons sprawled. Felicity's negligee was of the clear green of a wave's concavity a butterfly of blue enamel pinned her hair. A breeze, cool from the river, fluttered under the awning.
"Here is the coffee at last," she said. "I made it fresh. And I have brought some brioches. Will you sit up and have the tray on your knees?" "Thank you," said Ste. Marie. "I do not wish anything." "You do not " she repeated after him. "But I have made the coffee especially for you," she protested. "I thought you wanted it. I don't understand."
Now one finds tea not only at all the châteaux, with brioches and toast, but even in all the hotels, but I wouldn't guarantee what we get there as ever having seen China or Ceylon, and it is still wiser to take chocolate or coffee, which is almost always good. We had a lovely drive back. The forest was beautiful in the waning light.
It was a most imposing edifice two large, round brioches, four smaller ones on top, they went up in a pyramid. The four small ones go to the notabilities of the village the curé, two of the principal farmers and the miller; the whole thing very well arranged, with red and white flowers and lighted tapers.
Here we had an hour with them in the garden where many flowers are abloom, and exchanged travel experiences and home gossip over brioches, the famous white wine of Vouvray and glasses of orange-flower water. Orange-flower water is the proper thing to drink here as it is made in large quantities in the neighborhood of Tours.
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