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[Footnote 659: Grant to Forbes, no date. "Les rapports sur le nombre des Français varient de 3,000
He died in Paris, of lingering consumption, in 1608. The Baron de la Châtaigneraie was an officer of the Queen's guard. Richelieu, La Mère et le Fils vol. i. p. 18. Mercure Français 1606, p. 107. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 370 note. Mercure Français, 1606, p. 107. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 370.
"Yes; I stayed a day or two after my mother. One didn't want to come back to this dull hole." "Did you see the new piece at the Francais?" He made a face. "Not I! One couldn't be caught by such vieux jeu as that! There was a splendid woman in one of the cafes chantants but I suppose you don't go to cafes chantants?"
Parrot; consequently he was aware that I was acting in spite of the Faculty in the interests of the Comedie Francaise. The English public had given me such proofs of appreciation that the Comedie was rather affected by it, and the Figaro, which was at that time the organ of the Theatre Francais, requested Johnson to modify his praises of me. This he did the whole time that we were in London.
The first representation of a work that was a great step forward for the romantic school, Henri III et sa Cour, by Alexandre Dumas, had already taken place at the Francais, February 11, 1829. The 30th of March, 1830, the Odeon gave Christine de Suede, by the same author. In 1829, Alfred de Vigny had represented at the Francais his translation in verse of Othello.
"I speek Engleesh," said Juliette, with solemn grandeur. "I'm jolly glad to hear it," replied Godfrey, "and I parle Francais, or soon shall, I hope." Such was Godfrey's introduction to his new home at Kleindorf, where very soon he was happy enough.
The Musée Français was originally published in five volumes, and contains, besides the descriptions and criticisms on the plates, admirable essays 1st. on the History of Painting, from its origin in ancient times down to the time of Cimabue; 2d. on the History of Painting in the German, Dutch, Flemish, and French schools; 3d. on the History of Engraving; 4th. on the History of Ancient Sculpture.
As we moved on I saw that the yellow flowers of the purau, dried red by the sun, poultices for natives' bruises, and candlenuts in heaps, torches ready to hand, littered the moss. The mountain loomed in the distance, and the immense Pic du Français towered in shadow. Faintly I heard the boom of the waterfall, and knew we were nearing the goal.
We've feathered our nest; while one of these days you'll find the Café Français closed with a big placard on the shutters. Change my billiard-table!" she went on, speaking to herself, "the table that comes in so handy for folding the washing, and on which, in the hunting season, I have slept six visitors! But that dawdler Hivert doesn't come!"
At the sound of these songs and shot of cannon, the boy's mind awoke. He dated his own appreciation of the art of acting from the day when he saw and heard Rachel recite the 'MARSEILLAISE' at the Francais, the tricolour in her arms.
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