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I have seen more than that; pass me one of your bottles, and I will tell you what I have seen." Borromée hastened to comply with Chicot's desire. "Let me hear," said he. "Firstly, I have seen M. de Mayenne wounded." "Bah!" "No wonder, he was on my route. And then I have seen the taking of Cahors." "How? the taking of Cahors?" "Certainly.
Only a few strong places escaped the fury of the soldiers.... The city of Cahors fell into the power of the conqueror and was reduced to the same pitiable condition into which it had been brought by the Saracens.
The mountaineers never wearied of admiring the hardihood, the gaiety, the spirit, shown by her in making the most difficult ascensions. The 9th of September, she quitted Bagneres-de Luchon to return to Paris, passing through Toulouse, Montauban, Cahors, Limoges, and Orleans. It was one long series of ovations. The 1st of October, Madame returned to the Tuileries.
"La Trape," I said to my valet the same who was with me at Cahors "what is the name of the innkeeper at Poissy, at whose house we are accustomed to dine?" "Andrew, may it please your lordship." "Andrew! I thought so!" I exclaimed, smiting my thigh. "Simon and Andrew his brother! Answer, knave, and, if you have permitted me to be robbed these many times, tremble for your ears.
Others, however, declare that his father was an honest cobbler, very superstitious, residing at Bastide, near Cahors, and destined his son to be a Capuchin friar, and that he was in his novitiate when the Revolution tempted him to exchange the frock of the monk for the regimentals of a soldier.
What is it the presence of spring brings forth from us? this lightness of spirit, this gaiety, this flinging aside of worldly cares, this longing to laugh and sing?" "Well, Master Poet," and Major du Puys clapped the young man on the shoulder and smiled into his face. "Let them be like 'Henri at Cahors, and, my faith! you may read them all day to me." "No, I have in mind a happy refrain.
At Cahors, in spite of multiplied requisitions, the Directory of Lot and Representative Taillefer state that "the inhabitants, for more than eight days, are reduced wholly to maslin bread composed of one-fifth of wheat and the rest of barley, barley-malt and millet."
He was born at Cahors, in the province of Guienne, in the year 1244. He was a very eloquent preacher, and soon reached high dignity in the Church. He wrote a work on the transmutation of metals, and had a famous laboratory at Avignon.
Four hours' riding, and we saw below us Cahors, filling the bend of the river. We cantered over the Vallandre Bridge, which there crosses the Lot, and so to my uncle's house of call in the square. Here we ordered breakfast, and announced with pride that we were going to Paris. Our host raised his hands. "Now there!" he exclaimed, regret in his voice.
If you see him, tell him that I believe nothing that I hear until I receive the word from his own glorious mouth. Alois, chilly in her cell, took no steps to get speech with King Richard. 'Let her suffer: I suffer, she would say. And then, curiously jealous lest more pain should be Berengère's than was hers, a daughter's of France, she made haste to send assuring messages to Cahors.
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