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"'Vive l'Empereur!" "'Vive l'Imperatrice!" "'Vive le Prince Imperial!" and the last cry was yet more prolonged than the others, as if to affirm the dynasty. "Certainly I can imagine no Court in the old days of chivalry more splendid than the audience in that grand hall of the Louvre.
I went to the Porte de la Muette, and, getting round to the left, approached the Arc de Triomphe from the Avenue de L'Impératrice. All along I found trees, lamp-posts, and the façades of houses smashed by shells. Turning off by the Rue de Morny, I worked my way round to the Boulevard Haussmann.
At the Arc de Triomphe was a crowd trying to discover what was going on upon the heights above Argenteuil. Some declared they saw Prussians, while others with opera glasses declared that the supposed Prussians were only trees. In the Avenue de l'Impératrice was a large crowd gazing upon the Fort of Mont Valérien.
Nothing could make her a tall woman; but her grey hair, dressed high a l'imperatrice, gave her dignity at least, and an air of old-fashioned distinction. And she was one of those few and fortunate ladies who never need to worry about the appearance of their cavaliers. Mr.
I had not been there since last August. How changed it was! The broad Avenue de l'Imperatrice, where the lovely Empress drove every day in her caleche a la Daumont, surrounded by the magnificent Cent Gardes, is now almost impossible to drive in. The trees are cut down, and the roads full of ditches and stones.
It is only of late that all this has been satisfactorily refuted, and that it has been proved that Josephine returned only at the instance of her husband's pressing demands. See Aubenas, "Histoire de l'Imperatrice Josephine," vol. i., p. 164.
"'Vive l'Empereur!" "'Vive l'Imperatrice!" "'Vive le Prince Imperial!" and the last cry was yet more prolonged than the others, as if to affirm the dynasty. "Certainly I can imagine no Court in the old days of chivalry more splendid than the audience in that grand hall of the Louvre.
Furthermore, if any of his constituents, passing through Paris, presented themselves at his small hotel on the Rue de l'Imperatrice it had been built by an architect named Lescande, as a compliment from the deputy to his old friend they were received with a winning affability that sent them back to the province with softened hearts.
Mascarin was not easily disconcerted, but this time a blasphemous oath burst from his lips. "Do you mean," said he, "that De Breulh and this painter are friends?" "That is more than I can tell. You seem to want to know a lot," answered Florestan, sulkily. Modeste had now left the young men, who walked arm in arm in the direction of the Avenue de l'Imperatrice.
Furthermore, if any of his constituents, passing through Paris, presented themselves at his small hotel on the Rue de l'Imperatrice it had been built by an architect named Lescande, as a compliment from the deputy to his old friend they were received with a winning affability that sent them back to the province with softened hearts.
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