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Be good enough, Vicomte, to name the rendezvous." "Do you know the chapel of St. Sulpice des Reaux?" "What! Beyond the Loire?" "Precisely, Monsieur. About a league from Chambord by the river side." "I can find the place." "Will you meet us there at nine o'clock to-night?" I looked askance at him. "But why cross the river? This side affords many likely spots!" "Very true, Monsieur.
He snorted at the thought of that deluded monarch Charles I ordering Inigo Jones to design him a palace surpassing all palaces, and receiving from Inigo Jones the plans of a structure which would have equalled in beauty and eclipsed in grandeur any European structure of the Christian era even Chambord, even the Escurial, even Versailles and then accomplishing nothing beyond a tiny fragment of the sublime dream.
Both descriptions fit Chenonceaux admirably; when used of Chambord they are out of place. Chenonceaux is noted chiefly for its château, but the little village itself is charming.
Every waking hour, and often in my dreams, I saw Francezka's face as I had last seen it, pale and despairing. There was something else besides pleasuring at Chambord; the fêtes were meant to disguise more serious events.
Across the wide, low-lying fields and pasture lands, we could see the long line of foliage that marks the forest of Chambord. All these great country palaces of the kings and nobles of France were comparatively near each other, "quite within visiting distance," as Miss Cassandra says.
In 1791 an odd proposal was made to the French Government by a company of English Quakers, who had conceived the bold idea of establishing in the palace a manufacture of some peaceful commodity not to-day recorded. Napoleon allotted Chambord, as a "dotation," to one of his marshals, Berthier, for whose benefit it was converted, in Napoleonic fashion, into the so-called principality of Wagram.
Couriers flew from Paris to Venice, from Venice to Claremont, from Claremont to Paris. The Duke of Chambord issues a manifesto in which he announces not his own, but the "national" restoration, "with the aid of all the members of his family." The Oleanist Salvandy throws himself at the feet of Henry V. The Legitimist leaders Berryer, Benoit d'Azy, St.
"Tout cela fonc- tionne," the guide said of these miniature weapons; and I wondered, if he should take it into his head to fire off his little canon, how much harm the Comte de Chambord would do. From below, the castle would look crushed by the redundancy of its upper protuberances if it were not for the enormous girth of its round towers, which appear to give it a robust lateral development.
There were plenty of Bourbons, it seemed. And now where are they? What is left of them?" He gave a nod of the head toward the sea that lay between him and Germany. "One old woman, over there, at Frohsdorf, the daughter of Marie Antoinette, awaiting the end of her bitter pilgrimage and this Comte de Chambord. This man who will not when he may.
Whenever such appears, duty demands that I should protest against his pretensions. Great the relief would indeed be to me could the Comte de Chambord, or any historian, produce rational argument, or rather documents, to support the supposition that the son of Louis XVI. and Marie-Antoinette died in the Tower of the Temple, in June, 1795.
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