United States or United States Virgin Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Ah! a merry time was the year of the war! France suffered, alas! but the `L'Hotel Soult' prospered. 'Twas the year I was left a widow! I had ten waiters then, Monsieur, and two billiard-markers, a chef from the best kitchen in Paris, and stables, and chambrieres, and why, Monsieur, the wages of one week were twenty twenty-five napoleons!" "That was after the war?" asked Roger. "Yes.
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.
The Place de l'Hotel de Ville, of which one side remains very much as it was then, bristled with gibbets, and 150 persons were hanged in a single day. The man who had rung the tocsin that called together the insurgents was suspended by the neck to the hammer of the bell, as a warning to others not to ring it again unless they had a better motive.
And on the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville he was much interested in the bronze statue of the young girl, bearing a banner. "Who is it?" "Jeanne d'Arc." Georges Guynemer's parents renounced the woman teacher, and in order to keep him near them, entered him as a day scholar at the lyceum of Compiègne. Here the child worked very little.
When she went away in a whirl of preparations and addresses, I turned to one of my neighbours, saying: "Je crois qu'on est tres bien a l'Hotel de Londres a Rome," quite an insignificant and inoffensive remark merely to say something. She replied haughtily: "Je n'en sais rien, Madame; je n'ai jamais quitte Paris et je m'en vante."
He then placed himself at the head of the vast crowd assembled in the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, harangued them, and gave the signal for their departure. It was nearly ten o'clock when the insurgents reached the Place du Carrousel.
La Montagne d'Or is a lovely hill above the town, and I am told that many English families reside upon it, but we have no time to make minute enquiries. L'Hotel de la Croix de Malthe affords excellent accommodations within, and a delightful prospect without. The Baths too have attracted my notice much, and will, I hope, repair my strength, so as to make me no troublesome fellow-traveller.
Nor did the most careful search among the old Squire's papers lead to the discovery of any record of the supposed report of the lad's death. As a matter of fact, if the billiard-marker at "L'Hotel Soult" was the man, they had already traced him down to a date long subsequent to that of his rumoured death.
The grand maitre d'hotel was the chief officer of the court. The royal orders came through him; he regulated the expenses; and was, in short, to the rest of the functionaries, what the general is to the army. The maitre des requetes was at the head of civil justice; the prevot de l'hotel at the head of criminal justice....
The landlady in her bureau yawned and hummed, and had not even a bill to make out. She had already made out that of the young English gentleman, and a pretty one it was! A guest such as he was worth a season to the landlady of "L'Hotel Soult."
Word Of The Day