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Tom had led Henry like a sheep to the box, where they were evidently expected by two excessively stylish young women, whom Tom had introduced to the overcome Henry as Loulou and Cosette, two artistes of the Théâtre des Capucines. Loulou was short and fair and of a full habit, and spoke no English.
Of all the spots on this fair, broad earth where the jaded globe wanderer, surfeited with hackneyed sight-seeing, may sit in perfect peace and watch the world go by, there is none more fascinating nor one presenting a more brilliant panorama of cosmopolitan life than that famous corner on the Paris boulevards, formed by the angle of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l'Opera.
The ministers escaped, but not without difficulty. M. Duchatel, in particular, had a great fright. M. Guizot, three days previously, had quitted the Hotel des Capucines and installed himself at the Ministry of the Interior. He lived there en famille with M. Duchatel. On February 24, MM. Duchatel and Guizot were about to sit down to luncheon when an usher rushed in with a frightened air.
He is a judge, as Death is Death." The two friends had reached the office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines. "Here you are at home," said Bianchon, laughing, as he pointed to the ministerial residence. "And here is my carriage," he added, calling a hackney cab. "And these express our fortune."
You have a dirty duty to do, but at least do it! Get out of here! Begone!" * It was popularly but erroneously believed that Lagrange fired the shot that led to the massacre in the Boulevard des Capucines on February 23. Lagrange endeavoured to speak. His voice was drowned by hooting.
"She must drive out in her equipage, and she must dress and receive great people, and I am not so blind a mother as not to see that she will have many things to learn. She has not time to write long letters, and see how she cares for me, money, see you, by every letter, and a silk dress and lace cap she herself has chosen in the Boulevard Capucines.
While the Assembly shouts, murmurs, yells, roars, and rages, Changarnier yawns. Lagrange, it is said, fired the pistol in the Boulevard des Capucines, fatal spark that heated the passions of the people and caused the conflagration of February. He is styled: Political prisoner and Representative of the people. Lagrange has a grey moustache, a grey beard and long grey hair.
About the end of August 1815, as I was walking on the Boulevard des Capucines, I had the pleasure of meeting Rapp, whom I had not seen for a long time. He had just come out of the house of Lagrenee, the artist, who was painting his portrait. I was on foot, and Rapp's carriage was waiting, so we both stepped into it, and set off to take a drive in the Bois de Boulogne.
As I was disposed to place more reliance on Miss Bubbleton's statements than those of her imaginative brother, I agreed to his proposal to pay her a visit; and accordingly we set out together for the Rue Neuve des Capucines. Lieutenant-General Bubbleton's quarters were by no means of that imposing character which befitted his rank in the British army.
Around this spot without a name stand the Foundling hospital, the Bourbe, the Cochin hospital, the Capucines, the hospital La Rochefoucauld, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the hospital of the Val-de-Grace; in short, all the vices and all the misfortunes of Paris find their asylum there.
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