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Tewkesbury, p. 62; Histoire de G. le Maréchal, lines 15329-32; Hist. des ducs de Normandie, et des rois d'Angleterre, p. 181, and Ann. Winchester, p. 83. Wykes, p. 60, and Ann. Dunstable, p. 48, which confirm Wendover, are suspect by reason of other errors. On November 2 a great council met at Bristol.
The brightest light shining over Saint Cloud at this time was the radiance shed by the brilliant Henriette d'Angleterre. Her reign as a social and witty queen of the court was brief. She died at the age of twenty-six, poisoned at the instigation of the Chevalier de Lorraine whom she had caused to be exiled.
The appearance of la chere mamma beside the hissing tea-urn brought us both back to ourselves; and, after an hour's chatting, we wished good night, to start on the morrow for the continent. "Hotel de Bain, mi lor'." "Hotel d'Angleterre," said another, in a voice of the most imposing superiority. "C'est superbe pretty well."
The Germans, who propagated them through the nations of the North, derived them certainly from France. Robert Wace published his Anglo-Norman Romance of the Brut d'Angleterre about 1155. Sir Tristan was written in French prose in 1170; and The Chevalier au Lion, Chevalier de l'Epee, and Sir Lancelot du Lac, in metrical French, by Chrestien de Troyes, before 1200.
The purpose of her receiving an appointment at the Court of St. James's was apparently foretold, for Madame de Sévigné thus writes to her daughter: "Ne trouvez-vous pas bon de savoir que Querouaille dont l'étoile avait été devineé avant qu'elle partit, l'a suivie très-fidèlement? Le roi d'Angleterre l'a aimée, elle s'est trouvée avec une légère disposition
"By all means," she had answered. "I will give you a note to take to him." She had sat down and written the note and Henri had dispatched it immediately. But, also immediately, madame and her maid had left. "I beg monsieur to believe that if there is anything " Monte waved the man aside, went to the telephone, and rang up the Hôtel d'Angleterre.
"I shall get one of my sons to transact the business to-day." After giving me this rather sharp lesson, M. Boaz went into his office, and I went to dress. M. d'Afri had paid his call on me at the "Hotel d'Angleterre," and not finding me there he had written me a letter asking me to come and see him.
At this town we slept, and set off, the next morning, very early, for Valogne, where we dined; and in the evening, after passing a considerable extent of rich meadow land, and descending a very steep hill, the freshness of the sea air announced to us our near approach to Cherbourg, where, at the hôtel d'Angleterre, I was soon afterwards landed.
Of her many works, the most ambitious are a piano concerto, the "Souvenir d'Angleterre" for piano and orchestra, and two sets of piano variations with orchestral accompaniment.
She was waiting for him when he returned to the Hôtel d'Angleterre. "You were right about Marie," she acknowledged. "She has two brothers in the army. She has money enough for her fare to Paris, and is going as soon as possible." "In the meanwhile she is safe enough here. So, en avant!" He took her bag, and they stepped out into the sunshine.
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