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These leaders, with Generals Miramon, Marquez, Mejia, and Castillo, and General Arellano, who commanded the artillery, were the most conspicuous among the Imperialist officers gathered around Maximilian at this time.* * A. Haus, "Queretaro: Souvenirs d'un Officier de l'Empereur Maximilien," pp. 11, 17.
From 1857 until 1878 she followed the fortunes of her husband, who became a general and a "Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur," and her public appearances were limited to such places as the vicissitudes of a military life took her to. Since 1878 Madame Parmentier has lived quietly in Paris, where she is still to be met by a few fortunate persons in select musical and social circles.
"France!" cried Heyward, advancing from the shadow of the trees to the shore of the pond, within a few yards of the sentinel. "D'ou venez-vous ou allez-vous, d'aussi bonne heure?" demanded the grenadier, in the language and with the accent of a man from old France. "Je viens de la decouverte, et je vais me coucher." "Etes-vous officier du roi?"
In the midst of the delight of madame, at having at last to receive the brother of cette chere Valerie, and that brother, too, si bel homme et brave officier, et d'une ressemblance si parfaite a la charmante soeur, dinner was luckily announced; and the torrent-tide of madame's hospitality was cut short, by her husband's declaration that we were all, like himself, dying of hunger; and that not a word more must be spoken, touching sympathies or sentiments, until we had partaken of something nutritious de quoi soutenir l'epuisement des emotions si dechirantes.
In May, Richard went away to Paris to study from the antique in the Louvre, and Mary read English to her father for an hour every afternoon. In the summer Mr. Hamerton received the decoration and title of Officier d'Academie, but so little did he care for public marks of distinction that the fact is barely mentioned in the diary. In August he received the following interesting letter from Mr.
"The Fifth, mon officier," said he, "Voltigeurs of the Line." "Have you a certain François, a maître d'armes, still among you?" "Yes, that we have. There he is yonder, beating time to the roulade." I looked in the direction he pointed, and there stood my old friend. He was advanced in front of a company, and with the air of a tambour-major he seemed as if he was giving time to the melody.
But when he has gone through the great gate, guarded by soldiers with loaded rifles, when he has changed his civil clothes for an old and soiled uniform, when he has found that his bed is a filthy old mattress in a barn where hundreds of men are quartered, when he has received for the first time certain brief and harsh orders from a sous- officier, and finally, when he goes out again into the immense courtyard, surrounded by high grey walls, a strange impression of solitude takes hold of him, and he finds himself abandoned, broken and imprisoned.
"Observa. sobre el clima de Lima" page 67. Azara's "Travels" volume 1 page 381. Ulloa's "Voyage" volume 2 page 28. Burchell's "Travels" volume 2 page 524. Webster's "Description of the Azores" page 124. "Voyage a l'Isle de France par un Officier du Roi" tome 1 page 248. "Description of St. At night a stranger arrived at the house of Don Benito and asked permission to sleep there.
Un journal anglais, 'Truth, a publie il y a quinze jours une lettre sans signature, mais presentee comme la communication authentique d'un officier de notre flotte de la Mediterranee.
He tek me to the King, I am made lieutenant, the mob come and the King and Queen are carry off to Paris. The King is prisoner, Monsieur le Marquis goes back to the Chateau de St. Gre. France is a republic. Monsieur que voulez-vous?" I become officier in the National Guard, one must move with the time. Is it not so, Monsieur? I deman' of you if you ever expec' to see a St. Gre a Republican."
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