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It was lucky there were some stars among us, as Monsieur de Lareinty had said, otherwise we would have seen none to-night. At ten o'clock the "galaxy" went into the salle de musique, and the planets began to shine. First came Baroness Gourgaud, who attacked the "Mi-bemol Polonaise," of Chopin.
Monsieur de Lareinty said to the Empress at tea that there was an unusual amount of musical talent among her guests a real galaxy of stars seldom to be found in amateurs. The galaxy may have existed but the stars! The Milky Way seen through the wrong end of an opera glass was nothing to the smallness of their magnitude.
After Boulanger had insulted the Duc d'Aumale while he was Minister of War, a challenge passed between himself and an Orleanist, M. le Baron de Lareinty. Boulanger stood to receive the fire of his adversary, but did not fire in return. He was subsequently anxious to fight Jules Ferry; but Jules Ferry declined any meeting of the kind.
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