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He added: "M. de Saint-Aulaire a beaucoup d'esprit. Mais il est devot, et, ce qui pis est, devot honteux. Il va se cacher dans quelque hameau pour faire ses Paques." This was a curious remark from a Bishop. He told several stories about the political men of France; not of any great value in themselves; but his way of telling them was beyond all praise, concise, pointed, and delicately satirical.
Frascati, Rue de la Loi, S. Idalie, S. Hameau de Chantilly, aux Champs Elysees. Paphos, Boulevard du Temple. Vauxhall d'hiver. 40. d'ete, S. 41. a Mousseaux, S. 42. a St. Cloud, S. 43. au Petit Trianon, S. Jardin de l'hotel Biron, Rue de Varenne, S. Thelusson, Chaussee d'Antin, S. Marboeuf, Grille de Chaillot, S. 47. de l'hotel d'Orsay, S. Fetes champetres de Bagatelle, S.
We had a boy guest with us at luncheon, a lonely boy left at school when his few compatriots save only the two Red-Cross prisoners had gone home on holiday. The day was bright and balmy; and while strolling in the park beyond the Petit Trianon, we stumbled by accident upon the hameau, the little village of counterfeit rusticity wherein Marie Antoinette loved to play at country life.
Its name was now the Hameau de Chantilly, and, considering that the entrance tickets cost but fifteen sous including a drink it must have proved a cheap, satisfying and splendid amusement for the people. This state of affairs lasted until 1805, when Murat bought it and here held his little court up to his departure for Naples, when, in gratefulness for past favours, he gave it to Napoleon.
The attention of the socius was divided between the least noise from without, and the slow evolution of the hands of the watch, which he followed with his little, wrathful eye, as if hastening their progress, so great was his impatience for the hour of noon. The notary, unfolding the sheet of parchment, read what follows, in the midst of profound attention: Hameau de Villetaneuse,
A "dix cors," a stag with antlers of ten branches, had been run down at the Rond Royal where it had taken refuge in a near-by copse, and after an hour's hard chase was finally cornered in the courtyard of some farm buildings of the Hameau d'Orillets. A troop of cows was entering the courtyard at the same moment, and a most confused melée ensued.
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