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She invited me to dinner at Ouchy, near Lausanne, where she then resided. I was seated by her side, and having come from Paris she questioned me on all passing there, what people were saying, what occupied the public and the salons. I spoke of an article by Chateaubriand in the Mercure, which attracted attention at the moment of my leaving.
We should not talk like this if it were a question of some outsider, some inconvenient person who had made a name for himself without us and was not wanted; but Nathan is one of us. Blondet got some one to attack him in the Mercure for the pleasure of replying in the Debats. For which reason the first edition went off at once."
He considered newspaper work but decided that the hours were not ordered for a married man. And he lingered over pleasant fancies of himself either as editor of a brilliant weekly of opinion, an American Mercure de France, or as scintillant producer of satiric comedy and Parisian musical revue. However, the approaches to these latter guilds seemed to be guarded by professional secrets.
One day I took the Mercure de France, and as I walked and read, I came to the following question proposed by the academy of Dijon, for the premium of the ensuing year, 'Has the progress of sciences and arts contributed to corrupt or purify morals? The moment I had read this, I seemed to behold another world, and became a different man.
"You make me mad I But won't you teach me to see? No one wants to be blind! Teach me to see with your eyes, lady my lady." "Yes, I will teach you!" she said. "Teach you a number of things. Together we will put on the hat of darkness and go down into Hades. We shall taste the apples of the Hesperides we will rob Mercure of his sandals and Gyges of his ring.
Mercure Français, 1610, pp. 510, 511. Matthieu, Hist, des Derniers Troubles, book iii. p. 455. Sully, Mém. vol. viii. pp. 81-84. Mercure Français, 1610, p. 505. Mézeray, vol. xi. p. 11. Claude de la Châtre was originally one of the pages of the Duc de Montmorency, who continued to protect him throughout his whole career.
He died in Paris, of lingering consumption, in 1608. The Baron de la Châtaigneraie was an officer of the Queen's guard. Richelieu, La Mère et le Fils vol. i. p. 18. Mercure Français 1606, p. 107. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 370 note. Mercure Français, 1606, p. 107. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 370.
Under the Directory," one day, in order to dispatch a special courier, the receipts of the Opera had to be taken because they were in coin. "Mercure britannique," nos. for November 1798 and January 1799. Near Montrejean "the carnage was frightful, nearly 2000 men slain or drowned and 1000 prisoners."
The marriage took place on June 16, 1827, the lady having previously asked the consent of George IV.!! A droll account of the reception of her Mercure galant at Windsor is given in the North British Review, vol. xxxix. p. 349. Sir John Barrow, the well-known Secretary to the Admiralty, who died in 1848 in his eighty-fifth year. Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconsfield. Storrs, Windermere.
Though Minoret was very little of a humbug, he invented the famous balm of Lelievre, so much extolled by the "Mercure de France," the weekly organ of the Encyclopedists, in whose columns it was permanently advertised.
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