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The landlord was an immensely fat man, called Plon a name which, irresistibly converted into Plon-Plon, seemed to give an aristocratic air to the house and he lived and made shoes in a small room at the foot of the lowest flight of stairs, so that he acted as his own concierge, and boasted that no one came in or out without his knowledge.
But it was an easy matter to create an empire as the result of an armed invasion of an unwilling land, it was quite another thing to organize it upon a permanent basis. As Prince Napoleon familiarly known as Plon-Plon very wittily remarked later, "One can do anything with bayonets, except sit upon them."
All the J<e'>rome Napoleons I have ever seen, including old King J<e'>rome of Westphalia, and Prince Na- poleon J<e'>rome, otherwise known as ``Plon-Plon, whom I saw during my student life at Paris, and the eldest son of the latter, the present Bonaparte pretender to the Napoleonic crown of France, whom I saw during my stay as minister at St.
"To-morrow," she said cheerfully, "to-morrow will bring you some tobacco." "To-morrow will also, I imagine, bring Périne," he replied, with a laugh, and when he laughed it was possible to see what a handsome young fellow the haggard man had been. "Well, I am not sure that Périne isn't preferable to old Plon-Plon.
The duke of Buckingham and Chandos in his Memoirs pays tribute to her talent, piquant charm and "untarnished name," while her enemy, Prince Napoleon Plon-Plon thus characterizes her: "Ambitieuse, un esprit indomptable, une réputation sans tâche."
The sound of the plon-plon of the British Army was daily growing more distinct. The house of Ucalegon was on fire. The Volksraad met on May 7, and after a session of three days handed over the situation to the wavering executive Government, which had already made arrangements for an eastward retirement.
The son bore the nickname of ``Plon-Plon, probably with some reference to his reputation for cowardice; the father had won the appellation of ``Le Roi Loustic, and, indeed, had the credit of introducing into the French language the word ``loustic, derived from the fact that, during his short reign at Cassel, King J<e'>rome was wont, after the nightly orgies at his palace, to dismiss his courtiers with the words: ``Morgen wieder loustic, Messieurs.
Her voice, too, was gentle and fascinating. Prince Napoleon, commonly known as "Plon-Plon," often used to come to George Sand's rehearsals. He was extremely fond of her. The first time I ever saw that man I turned pale, and felt as though my heart had stopped beating. He looked so much like Napoleon I. that I disliked him for it.
Marie looked at him indulgently. "Yes, my friend, I understand." "I'll lay a wager you never got that journal from old Plon-Plon?" "He had not finished with it." "Of course not. Then I shall go to sleep, for there is nothing else for me to do." He flung a handkerchief over his eyes as he spoke, put his feet on Périne's stool, and his elbow on the table.
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