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Avignon is the capital of the department of Vaucluse, the department being so named rather from the celebrity of the poet, than from its local relations. Departure from Avignon Olive and Mulberry Fields Orgon St. Canat French Divorces Inn at St. Canat Air Situation Cathedral Society Provisions Price of Land Marseilles Conclusion.
Therefore, being a good motor driver, Hugh started away down the long road which led through the valley to Orgon, and thence direct to Avignon, which came into sight about seven o'clock in the morning.
We were here told that we could have no lodging. Luckily for us the moon was up, and very clear; we therefore pushed on for Orgon, which, although said in the post-book to be two posts and a half from Bonpas, we reached in about an hour and a half.
Next day we put up at a wretched place called Orgon, where, however, we were regaled with an excellent supper; and among other delicacies, with a dish of green pease. Provence is a pleasant country, well cultivated; but the inns are not so good here as in Languedoc, and few of them are provided with a certain convenience which an English traveller can very ill dispense with.
He courageously refused, though threatened with a stroke of a sabre, when, fortunately; the carriage being ready to start, he whipped the horses and set off at full gallop. The Commissioners would not breakfast at Orgon; they paid for what had been prepared, and took some refreshments away with them.
MARIANE. Je suis fort redevable a cet amour de pere. ORGON. Fort bien. Que dites-vous de Tartuffe notre hote? MARIANE. Qui? Moi? ORGON. Vous. Voyez bien comme vous repondrez. MARIANE. Helas! J'en dirai, moi, tout ce que vous voudrez! ORGON. C'est parler sagement.
How, for example, shall an audience be assured that an evident and monstrous dupe is actually deceived without being an absolute fool? In Le Tartuffe the note of high Comedy strikes when Orgon on his return home hears of his idol's excellent appetite. 'Le pauvre homme! he exclaims. He is told that the wife of his bosom has been unwell.
Before leaving Beaucaire we had all provided ourselves, taking example by the men we had seen at Orgon, with two cockades, one white, and one tricoloured, and by peeping out from carriage windows we were able to see which was worn by the troops we were approaching in time to attach a similar one to our hats before we got up to them, whilst we hid the other in our shoes; then as we were passing we stuck our heads, decorated according to circumstances, out of the windows, and shouted vigorously, 'Long live the king! or 'Long live the emperor! as the case demanded.
Their wisdom impressed me much, and feeling I had nothing to fear from such philosophers, I went up to them and questioned them, and they explained their hopes to me with the greatest innocence, and above all, their firm determination to belong to what ever party got the upper hand. As we drove into Orgon we saw at a glance that the whole town was simmering with excitement.
Italy and Eugene Siege of Dantzic-Capitulation concluded but not ratified-Rapp made prisoner and sent to Kiow Davoust's refusal to believe the intelligence from Paris Projected assassination of one of the French Princes Departure of Davoust and General Hogendorff from Hamburg The affair of Manbreuil Arrival of the Commissioners of the Allied powers at Fontainebleau Preference shown by Napoleon to Colonel Campbell Bonaparte's address to General Kohler His farewell to his troops First day of Napoleon's journey The Imperial Guard succeeded by the Cossacks Interview with Augerean The first white cockades Napoleon hanged in effigy at Orgon His escape in the disguise of a courier Scene in the inn of La Calade Arrival at Aix The Princess Pauline Napoleon embarks for Elba His life at Elba.
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