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Updated: June 7, 2025
This reminds me of poor Blucher's note to the landlord in Paris: PARIS, le 7 Juillet. Monsieur le Landlord Sir: Pourquoi don't you mettez some savon in your bed-chambers? Est-ce que vous pensez I will steal it?
No. 57. Le Chargé d'Affaires en Serbie au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Nich, le 16/29 Juillet 1914.
Men and women, drunk with brandy and exultation, shouted "Quatorze Juillet!" and amidst curses and threats demanded the opening of the gates. The people of France would have its will. Was it not the supreme lord an ruler of the land, the arbiter of the Fate of this great, beautiful, and maddened country? The National Guard was powerless; the officers in command could offer but feeble resistance.
L'Ambassadeur en France au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, le 19 Juillet/1 Août 1914.
No. 37. L'Ambassadeur en France au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, le 14/27 Juillet 1914.
Londres, le 12/25 Juillet 1914. Reçu télégramme du 11 Juillet. Grey a prescrit
No. 55. L'Ambassadeur en France au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, le 16/29 Juillet 1914.
Another stranger, of political celebrity out of doors, styled himself American as well as Paine, Fournier l'Americain, a mulatto from the West Indies, whose complexion was not considered "incompatible with freedom" in France, a violent and blood-thirsty fellow, who shot at Lafayette on the dix-sept Juillet, narrowly missing him, led an attacking party against the Tuileries on the dix Aout, and escaped the guillotine to be transported by Bonaparte.
It has been said that Beaujeu, and not Contrecoeur, commanded at Fort Duquesne at the time of Braddock's expedition. Some contemporaries, and notably the chaplain of the fort, do, in fact, speak of him as in this position; but their evidence is overborne by more numerous and conclusive authorities, among them Vaudreuil, governor of Canada, and Contrecoeur himself, in an official report. Vaudreuil says of him: "Ce commandant s'occupa le 8 [Juillet]
Facing the road is the following inscription: 'Dans cette plaine le 17 Juillet, 1453, fut remporte la victoire qui delivra du joug de l'Angleterre les provinces meridionals de la France et termina la guerre de cent ans. The abbey where the French archers were surprised and slain must have been near this spot, but it was down in the valley by the Lidoire where Talbot fell.
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