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After all that is just as the composer wished, to be known through his compositions, for in them he revealed himself. They are transparent reflections of his character, his aims and ideals. Only the barest facts of his early life can be told. We know that he was born at Saint Germain-en-Laye, France, August 22, 1862.
About this same time, however, the English man-servant of one of Trochu's aides-de-camp contrived, not only to reach Saint Germain-en-Laye, where his master's family was residing, but also to return to Paris with messages.
Yet he had little doubt but that the pursuing machine had risen from the aerodrome of Count Remy de Morbihan at St.-Germain-en-Laye; that it was nothing less, in fact, than De Morbihan's Valkyr, reputed the fastest monoplane in Europe and winner of a dozen International events; and that it was guided, if not by De Morbihan himself, by one of the creatures of the Pack quite possibly, even more probably, by Ekstrom!
"Written at St. Germain-en-Laye, the 21st day of November 1586. "And below, BRULART." This letter finally decided James VI. to make a kind of demonstration in his mother's favour: he sent Gray, Robert Melville, and Keith to Queen Elizabeth. But although London was nearer Edinburgh than was Paris, the French envoys reached it before the Scotch.
Germain-en-Laye, signed on March 29, 1632. Quebec as well as Port Royal to whose history I shall refer in the following chapter were restored to France, and Champlain was again in his fort on Cape Diamond in the last week of May, 1633. A number of Jesuits, who were favoured by Richelieu, accompanied him and henceforth took the place of the Recollets in the mission work of the colony.
What country can you possibly come from then? 'From St. Germain-en-Laye, sir, replied the boldest among them; 'this is the first time you have put the question to us in French. They then confessed the motive of their disguise; the eldest of them was not more than eighteen years of age. Louis XV. was informed of the affair.
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