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In order to manage such high play at the Queen's faro table, it was necessary to have a banker provided with large, sums of money; and this necessity placed at the table, to which none but the highest titled persons were admitted in general, not only M. de Chalabre, who was its banker, but also a retired captain of foot, who officiated as his second.
At the Jacobins, when he speaks there are sobs and cries of emotion, and men stamp as though they would bring the hall down. A young widow, Mme. de Chalabre, possessed of sixteen hundred pounds a year, sends him burning love-letters and is eager to marry him. We cannot seek in his character for the causes of his popularity.
A Report, the 8th September 1776, with information concerning the rumored project of the future Emperor of Austria to invade Dalmatia after the death of Maria Theresa. Casanova stated he had received this information from a Frenchman, M. Salz de Chalabre, whom he had known in Paris twenty years before. Amelin.
Antoine, fifteen others half way, and bring the rest here." "Yes, monsieur; but at what hour must we leave Paris?" "When night falls." "On horseback or on foot?" "On horseback." "Armed?" "Fully; with daggers, pistols, and swords." "With armor?" "Yes." "What else?" "Here are three letters; one for M. de Chalabre, one for M. de Biron, and one for yourself.
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