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Updated: May 13, 2025
We must always bear this in mind when we meet with those imposing titles which Russian tourists sometimes put on their visiting cards, such as "Conseiller de Cour," "Conseiller d'Etat," "Conseiller prive de S. M. l'Empereur de toutes les Russies."
Their destruction was certain; but it was for their country; it was in her presence, and for the sake of their deliverer, that they had devoted themselves; and even when on the point of being engulphed for ever, they suspended their unavailing struggles, turned their faces toward Napoleon, and exclaimed, "Vive l'Empereur!"
"I know no other flag!" cried the commandant, raising his sword. "Vive la France! Vive l'Empereur!" What a shout there was of "Vive l'Empereur! Vive la France!" at this.
And then, those visits, or rather ruthless inroads, called in the slang of the place "straw-plait hunts," when, in pursuit of a contraband article, which the prisoners, in order to procure themselves a few of the necessaries and comforts of existence, were in the habit of making, red-coated battalions were marched into the prisons, who, with the bayonet's point, carried havoc and ruin into every poor convenience which ingenious wretchedness had been endeavouring to raise around it; and then the triumphant exit with the miserable booty; and, worst of all, the accursed bonfire, on the barrack parade, of the plait contraband, beneath the view of the glaring eyeballs from those lofty roofs, amidst the hurrahs of the troops, frequently drowned in the curses poured down from above like a tempest-shower, or in the terrific war-whoop of "Vive l'Empereur!"
Katie, thinking of her steps and her business, did not perceive that she and her partner were alone; and ever and anon, others of course joined in and so they went on and on and on. M. Delabarbe de l'Empereur was a strong and active man, but he began to perceive that the lady was too much for him. He was already melting away with his exertions, while his partner was as cool as a cucumber.
I stood in my stirrups to shout 'Vive l'Empereur! and as I did so, there came the answering roar from my hussars, 'Vive l'Empereur! I sprang from my rough bed, with the words still ringing in my ears, and then, as I rubbed my eyes, and wondered if I were mad, the same cry came again, five thousand voices in one long-drawn yell.
Put not your trust in republics, nor in any constitution of man! God be praised for the downfall of Louis Philippe. This with a faint feeble echo of that loud last year's scream of "A bas Guizot!" seems to be the sum total. Or are we to salute the rising sun, with "Vive l'Empereur!" and the green liveries? President for life I think they'll make him, and then begin to tire of him.
His little brother Jean was crying behind him, and said: "No, no, Jacob! not the black!" But Pinacle fastened the ribbon to the smith's hat, while the latter said: "That is what we want now. We are all dead, and should wear our own mourning." And he cried savagely: "Vive l'Empereur!"
At that moment the shouts of "Vive l'Empereur" broke from thousands of throats behind us. Buche, who stood near me in a corner of the loft, shouted with all the rest of his comrades, "Vive l'Empereur!" I leaned over his shoulder and saw all the cavalry of our right wing; the cuirassiers of Milhaud, the lancers and the chasseurs of the Guard, more than five thousand men advancing at a trot.
"Je demande si je suis en communication avec l'Empereur Napoleon " "Oh," said Napoleon, "that's all right; speak English." "What!" I said in surprise. "You know English? I always thought you couldn't speak a word of it." He was silent for a minute. Then he said: "I picked it up over here. It's all right. Go right ahead."
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