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Updated: June 13, 2025
However, it is quite true that he left Paris, and I don't know what has become of him since." Here he touched De Breze, who, though still near, had not been listening to this conversation, but interchanging jest and laughter with Lemercier on the motley scene of the dance. "De Breze, have you ever heard what became of poor dear Victor de Mauleon? you knew him." "Knew him? I should think so.
Lemercier was chafed at finding himself supplanted in Alain's intimate companionship by so new a friend, and De Finisterre affected to regard Lemercier as a would-be exquisite of low birth and bad taste.
As Alain said these last words, the lady, who had turned back, was approaching them, and in full view of their gaze. She seemed unconscious of their existence as before, and Lemercier noticed that her lips moved as if she were murmuring inaudibly to herself.
The Englishman saluted, and walked slowly towards the door; but on reaching the threshold turned back and made a sign to Lemercier, unperceived by Alain. Frederic understood the sign, and followed Graham Vane into the adjoining room, closing the door as he passed. "My dear Lemercier, of course I should not have intruded on you at this hour on a mere visit of ceremony.
"At all events," replied the Englishman, "let me not lose the opportunity of improving our acquaintance which now offers. It is true that our friend Lemercier, catching sight of me in the Rue de Rivoli, stopped his coupe and carried me off for a promenade in the Bois. The fineness of the day tempted us to get out of his carriage as the Bois came in sight.
Lemercier knelt down quietly. "I should not wait for the roturier if he had not promised me a roti," said the Vicomte de Breze, with a pitiful attempt at the patrician wit of the ancien regime. Savarin shrugged his shoulders. "I am not included in the invitation," said he, "and therefore free to depart.
Just as M. Lemercier had come to that bellicose resolution, the Marquis said, with a smile which, though frank, was not without a certain grave melancholy in its expression, "My dear Frederic, pardon me if I seem to receive your friendly offers ungraciously.
The liberal party selected M. Lemercier, but as they knew his former connection with Bonaparte had been broken off they wished first to ascertain that he would do nothing to commit their choice.
Bonaparte treated M. Lemercier with great kindness; but he did not like him. His character as a literary man and poet, joined to a polished frankness, and a mild but inflexible spirit of republicanism, amply sufficed to explain Bonaparte's dislike. He feared M. Lemercier and his pen; and, as happened more than once, he played the part of a parasite by flattering the writer.
Effect produced at Altona by the Treaty of Tilsit The Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's departure from Hamburg English squadron in the Sound Bombardment of Copenhagen Perfidy of England Remark of Bonaparte to M. Lemercier Prussia erased from the map Napoleon's return to Paris Suppression of the Tribunate Confiscation of English merchandise Nine millions gained to France M. Caulaincourt Ambassador to Russia Repugnance of England to the intervention of Russia Affairs of Portugal Junot appointed to command the army The Prince Regent's departure for the Brazils The Code Napoleon Introduction of the French laws into Germany Leniency of Hamburg Juries The stolen cloak and the Syndic Doormann.
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