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Now Langres is builded on the summit of a mount, and the plain lies all about the city. So Lucius and part of his people lodged within the town, and for the rest they sought shelter in the valley. Arthur knew well where the emperor would draw, and of his aim and purpose. He was persuaded that the Roman would not fight till the last man was with him.
Without informing any one, he had been to Langres and consulted an officer of his acquaintance on the subject of the formalities required previous to enrolment. At last, one morning he resolved to go over to the military division and sign his engagement. But he was not willing to consummate this sacrifice without seeing Reine Vincart for the last time.
The bargain was quickly made; and in half an hour, Julien de Buxieres was rolling over the plain above Langres, in a shaky old cabriolet, the muddy hood of which bobbed over at every turn of the wheel, while the horse kept up a lively trot over the stones. The clouds were low, and the road lay across bare and stony prairies, the gray expanse of which became lost in the distant mist.
In arriving at Langres, Claudet enrolled in the seventeenth battalion of light infantry. Five days later, paying no attention to the lamentations of Manette, he left Vivey, going, by way of Lyon, to the camp at Lathonay, where his battalion was stationed.
Guy, duke of Spoleto, descended from Charlemagne in the female line, hastened to France and was declared king at Langres by the bishop of that town, but returned with precipitation to Italy, seeing no chance of maintaining himself in his French kingship. Elsewhere, Boso, duke of Arles, became king of Provence, and the Burgundian Count Rodolph had himself crowned at St.
I could not but think, as I stood upon this historic ground, that we ourselves were making history and that the fight that we were then preparing to make, while less romantic than the skirmishes of the feudal barons, was vastly more important to the welfare of the world. Situated as it is upon an eminence, a view that is beyond description is to be obtained from Langres.
Geneva opened its gates to the enemy in the following January. Vesoul, Epinal, Nancy, Langres, Dijon, Chalons-sur-Saone, and Bar-sur-Aube were occupied by the allies. The Emperor, in proportion as the danger became more pressing, displayed still more his energy and indefatigable activity.
He arrived at Langres in the afternoon of a foggy October day, and inquired immediately at the hotel how he could procure a carriage to take him that evening to Vivey.
Appointment to Cambrai. Disclosure of Madame Guyon's Doctrines. Her Disgrace. Bossuet and Fenelon. Disgrace of Fenelon. Death of Archbishop Harlay. Scene at Conflans. "The Good Langres." A Scene at Marly. Princesses Smoke Pipes! Fortunes of Cavoye. Mademoiselle de Coetlogon. Madame de Guise. Madame de Miramion. Madame de Sevigne. Father Seraphin. An Angry Bishop. Death of La Bruyere.
He knew right well that she was teasing him, though she did not mention the incident. He almost wished she would it might give him an opportunity to say to her the words that he longed to say. As for Lucerne or Langres Mademoiselle nimbly avoided those spots it was as if they had no place on her map of Europe. And try as he could, Paul could not bring himself to mention them.
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