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Updated: June 15, 2025
The citoyen Delourmel pushed her away and beckoned to the grenadiers to come forward. Then Athenaïs let loose a torrent of the foulest abuse, the filthiest and most abominable invective, at the magistrates and soldiers, who thought that all the rinsings of the Palais-Royal and the Rue Fromenteau were being emptied over their devoted heads.
Let us disregard prejudices, and examine facts. Even then, if all that is known of her were written, it could only bear to this rare personality the resemblance which a faint reflection does to reality. Agnes Sorel was probably born about 1420 or 1422, in the Castle of Fromenteau in Touraine. Her father, Jean Soreau, or Sorel, was Lord of Coudon, and belonged to the lesser nobility.
Vidoeq said to his man, 'You are served'; that's funnier, for it means the guillotine." A nudge from Bixiou made Gazonal all eyes and ears. "Does monsieur grease my paws?" asked Fromenteau of Gaillard, in a threatening but cool tone. "And the rapscallions?" said the man. "What rapscallions?" asked Gaillard. "Those I employ," replied Fromenteau calmly. "Is there a lower depth still?" asked Bixiou.
His quivering features were expressive of alarm; ruin sat enthroned on his forehead, covered with perspiration. By his side sat Caulaincourt; behind him, Berthier and Flahault. The carriage thundered along at the utmost speed. "Caulaincourt, I shall arrive at Paris in time," murmured the emperor; "we are already at Fromenteau; in an hour we shall be there.
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