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Updated: June 29, 2025


The termination of this latter punishment has a curious history attached to it. It happened that a Huguenot meeting for worship was held in the neighbourhood of Nismes, on the first day of January, 1756. The place of meeting was called the Lecque, situated immediately north of the Tour Magne, from which the greater part of the city has been built.

One day you will come to understand that those are the most comforting tears in the world." But Magne had thrown herself down on the ground by her side. "Mother, you don't know how happy you have made me to-day!" "I see I have, dear child; I was right to wait; it was a struggle, but I did right." "Mother, dear mother, let us go back to the forest at home, to the road through our forest!

I ascended the stupid Tour Magne, the mysterious structure I mentioned a moment ago. The only feature of this dateless tube, except the inevitable collection of photographs to which you are introduced by the doorkeeper, is the view you enjoy from its summit.

For instance, that part of his throat which was not sunburnt, because he stooped. When he lifted his head, you can't imagine how pure and fair it was. "Ah, how have I drifted into this train of thought? But never mind, I have drifted into it and I will follow it out it takes me to your father's side again! O Magne, how I loved him! how I shall always love him!"

The traditional figure of the Grand Condé, Olympian and sublime, has been exposed by pitiless documentary evidence. La Bruyère's latest and most learned editor, M. Emile Magne, gives a terrible picture of the Prince's meanness and dirtiness; Harpagon in an ostler's jacket, he calls him, en souquenille.

This was the very pleasant country residence built by M. Magne, Minister of Finance under the Second Empire, upon the site of the castle of Montaigne, which the author of the 'Essays, with a better sense of certain distinctions than that which is observed nowadays, preferred to speak of as his manoir.

Of course I, too, had been playing the same game that I have been looking on at to-day, but not with your aptitude. Yes, you may turn away your face. I had come to feel a certain disgust with life for myself among the rest and so I went on refusing people till it was too late in the day." "But with my uncle!" Magne broke out again. "We looked upon him differently at that time.

From 1848 to 1851 three years elapsed. People had long suspected Louis Bonaparte; but long-continued suspicion blunts the intellect and wears itself out by fruitless alarms. Louis Bonaparte had had dissimulating ministers such as Magne and Rouher; but he had also had straightforward ministers such as Léon Faucher and Odilon Barrot; and these last had affirmed that he was upright and sincere.

"No." A tolerably long silence followed the "No." "If I have never spoken of him freely, I had my reasons, Magne. You shall hear them now. For now I can tell you everything; I have not been able to do so before." She waited for the daughter to make some rejoinder; but she made none. The mother turned half round and pointed up towards the station, that is, towards the house which stood beside it.

I ascended the stupid Tour Magne, the mysterious structure I mentioned a moment ago. The only feature of this dateless tube, except the inevitable collection of photographs to which you are introduced by the doorkeeper, is the view you enjoy from its summit.

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