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If in any way I think less of Napoleon Bonaparte now than I did, let me at least admit that a more punctual, obliging, willing man I never talked with. He came in two minutes. "He's on the line now," they said. I took up the receiver, trembling. "Hello!" I called. "Est-ce que c'est l'Empereur Napoleon a qui j'ai l'honneur de parler?" "How's that?" said Napoleon.
So we gave our letter to a friend, who was to give it to a friend who was to place it in her hands her abode being a mystery, and the name she used unknown. The next day came by the post this answer: "Madame, j'aurai l'honneur de vous recevoir Dimanche prochain, rue Racine, 3.
But the moral excellence that even Boileau admitted, ladfoi, l'honneur, la probiite, do not in Parnassus avail the popular poet, and some luckless Musset or Theophile, Regnier or Villars attains a kind of immortality denied to the man of many contemporary editions, and of a great commercial success.
Every cafe will give evidence of it, every society bears its testimony to it, and even the most wretched Vaudeville, however, trivial the interest however meagre the story, and poor the diction, let the emperor but have his "role" let him be as laconic as possible, carry his hands behind his back, wear the well-known low cocked-hat, and the "redingote gris" the success is certain every sentence he utters is applauded, and not a single allusion to the Pyramids, the sun of Austerlitz, l'honneur, et al vieille garde, but is sure to bring down thunders of acclamation.
Messire Benedicto me fit, en l'honneur de monseigneur de Bourgogne, beaucoup d'accueil; il me conta même que, pour porter dommage aux Vénitiens, il avoit contribué
A Frenchman ventures, his life with alacrity 'pour l'honneur du Roi'; were you to change the object, which he has been taught to have in view, and tell him that it was 'pour le bien de la Patrie', he would very probably run away. Such gross local prejudices prevail with the herd of mankind, and do not impose upon cultivated, informed, and reflecting minds.
Both these classes of men, despots and feudal nobles, had a wide field for their ambition among the necessarily dissolved civic institutions; and their easy success contributed to confirm the general tendency of the day to say with Commines, "Qui a le succès a l'honneur," and to confound these two words and ideas.
I am ignorant of the designs of Heaven respecting me and my subjects; but I know the obligations which God has imposed upon me. As a Christian, I will fulfil my duties to my last breath as the son of St. Louis, I would, like him, respect myself even in chains as the successor of Francis I., I say with him 'Tout est perdu fors l'honneur'.
"Je suis most happy a avez le plaisir a-makez votre acquaintance, Mile. Paoli. J'ai already l'honneur de being partially acquainted with votre oncle, General di Paoli, and a fine fellow he is. And my eye! won't he be surprised to see you?
Skepsey had in politeness to stand listening, and blinking, plunged in the contrition of ignorance, eclipsed. He took it to signify something to the effect, that money should not pass between friends. It was the amatory farewell address of Henri IV. to his Charmante Gabrielle; and with 'Perce de mille lords, L'honneur m'appelle Au champ de Mars,
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