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"Royal Highness in person, with his English, was to attack Fontenoy; and is doing so, by battery and storm, at various points; with emphasis, though without result. In short, Ingoldsby, hasten what he might, could not perfect the preparations to his mind, had to wait for this and for that; and did not storm the Redoubt d'Eu at all; but hung fire, in an unaccountable manner.
All sorts of interesting people came to see us at the Ministry of Public Instruction, among others the late Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro de Bragance, who spent some months in Paris that year with his daughter, the young Comtesse d'Eu. He was a tall, good-looking man, with a charming easy manner, very cultivated and very keen about everything art, literature, politics.
The two ordinary motives of conspirators were wanting; but he loved France by force of sympathy and education, and he honestly believed that a restoration would be the best thing for his country. As a matter of love and duty he felt bound to work in order to bring about this most desirable of changes. From the Comte de Paris Chateau d'Eu, le 2 janvier 1883.
Philosophical as ever the aeronaut clung to his craft, dispatched an excellent lunch which the Princess Isabel, Comtesse d'Eu, daughter of Dom Pedro, the deposed Emperor of Brazil, sent to his eyrie in the branches, and finally extricated himself and his balloon neither much the worse for the accident. He had failed but his determination to win was only whetted.
Louis Philippe had visited Queen Victoria at Windsor, and the Queen of England had returned the visit to the French king with great pomp at his chateau d'Eu, in Normandy, where magnificent fêtes followed. Guizot and Lord Aberdeen, the English foreign minister, were also in accord, both statesmen adopting a peace policy.
An historian of the last century, M. Anquetil, relates that at the Château d'Eu, in 1774, an apartment was still pointed out which had been occupied by Lauzun, situated above that of the princess, and communicating by a secret staircase with her alcove. At the same period, Anquetil saw at Treport a tall person resembling Mademoiselle not only in her figure, but strikingly like her portraits.
At the time of her various sojourns at Dieppe, the Duchess of Berry went to visit the Orleans family at the Chateau d'Eu, She manifested toward her aunt, Marie-Amelie, the liveliest affection, and had no courtier more amiable and assiduous than the young Duke of Chartres, whom, it is said, she wished to have as husband for Mademoiselle.
I think these last volumes even more amusing than the first, and the discussions about Ireland are of peculiar interest at this moment I am very glad that these precious volumes are again in your hands. I felt quite uneasy whilst they were in mine. From the Comte de Paris Chateau d'Eu, le 2 fevrier.
How many of the large family party with which the Queen had been so delighted when she visited Chateau d'Eu had already passed away the old King, Queen Louise, the Duchesse de Nemours, and now the Duchesse d'Orleans! Her two young sons the elder the Comte de Paris, not yet twenty were specially adopted by Queen Amelie.
But repose is the good thing to which royalty can rarely attain, so it was settled that the banquet should go on. The display was less, and there was more of undress among the chief personages than there had been at the opening banquet at Chateau d'Eu.
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