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Updated: June 25, 2025
"After an hour we resumed our march, the mob saluting us with the choicest selection of curses and abusive epithets I ever heard. We passed down the Rue Royale, the bystanders calling on us to look upon the ruin we had caused, through the Champs Élysées to the Arch of Triumph, marching bare-headed, under a burning sun. At length, in the Avenue de l'Impératrice, an order to halt was given.
'She's mine, she's mine! shouted Macassar, rushing into the shop, and disregarding in the ecstasy of the moment the various customers who were quietly eating their ices. 'She's mine, she's mine! With her hair done all a l'imperatrice, Sweetly done with the best of grease. And now for Somerset House.
On returning home that night she had given her maid her cloak, and had stood for a long time immobile, gazing at her image in the pierglass. "Madame est belle comme l'Imperatrice d'Autriche!" said the maid at length. "Am I really beautiful, Mathilde?" Mathilde raised her eyes and hands to heaven in a gesture that admitted no doubt.
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.
The Prince opened the door of his and gave his orders to his coachman; but the Empress suddenly refused, saying that she preferred to go in a cab, and begged them not to follow her. There was a cab-stand directly opposite where they stood. They hailed one, and she and Madame Le Breton were about to get in when a little boy cried out, "Voila l'Imperatrice!"
On returning home that night she had given her maid her cloak, and had stood for a long time immobile, gazing at her image in the pierglass. "Madame est belle comme l'Imperatrice d'Autriche!" said the maid at length. "Am I really beautiful, Mathilde?" Mathilde raised her eyes and hands to heaven in a gesture that admitted no doubt.
It had now happened at Colmar, as it has come to pass at most hotels, that the public table is no longer the table-d'hote. The end chair was occupied by a stout, dark man, with a bald head and black beard, who was proudly filling a place different from that of his neighbours, and who would probably have gone over to the Hotel de l'Imperatrice had anybody disturbed him.
Rochefort, who was in power while the siege was in progress, suggested some medieval methods too childish for belief to annihilate the whole German army if they should enter Paris. He had ordered pitfalls in the Avenue de l'Imperatrice holes about three feet deep in which he intended the German cavalry to tumble headlong. He thought, probably, the army would come in the night and not see them.
"Vaura, dear," said Lady Esmondet, "I forgot to tell you I received a note from Felicite, saying they have not as yet left for Normandy, and that we shall find them at their house in the Avenue de l'Imperatrice." "Ah! that will be pleasant; I love the de Hautervilles root and branch; and wondered a little at their meditating a trip, with the ball for Eau Clair on the tapis."
Eustace Wingfield, as she entered, "in one of the most fashionable of French flats on Avenue de l'Imperatrice, the fourth flat of said number Eustace and I are fortunate denizens of, and I can assure you, the inmates are such pleasant people that, yours truly, with Eustace, are oftener to be found in these sunny quarters than at Eaton Square, London."
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