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Schools for these were generally founded in all the principal towns in the kingdom; it was there the younger officers of the army received their military education, and there were many public seminaries for public education, in addition to the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, where the pupils were maintained and educated at the public expence.
He looked as if he were about to destroy his adversary with lightning, but in reality he retained the most imperturbable sang-froid. He stood like a marble statue, but it was easy to divine the storm raging within...." His tendency, after taking his bachelor's degree, was towards science; he was ambitious to enter the École polytechnique, and joined the special mathematics class.
"Mademoiselle," he replied, "I ask myself what is the good of a fleeting happiness. The secret of my gloom is the evanescence of my pleasure." "That is a madrigal," she said, laughing, "which rings of the Court rather than the Polytechnique." "My son only expressed a very natural thought, mademoiselle," said Madame du Gua, who had her own reasons for placating the stranger.
By means of a letter of introduction to the head of the Polytechnique, which De Meudon had placed for me in his pocket-book, I was able to enter that military college, and, after a spell of earnest study, I was appointed to a commission in the Eighth Hussars.
Any relation to Roderick d'Enville?" "My father, sire." "He was my school-fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique. Embrace me!" And the Emperor fell upon my neck in the presence of his entire staff.
"Monsieur is perhaps a medical man?" asked one of Emilie's sisters-in-law with ironical meaning. "Monsieur has left the Ecole Polytechnique," Mademoiselle de Fontaine kindly put in; her face had flushed with richer color, as she learned that the young lady of the ball was Monsieur Longueville's sister.
But it is better to continue my history, and add my doubts as the facts develop themselves. When I entered the Ecole Polytechnique, I worked harder than ever and with even more ardor, in order to leave it as triumphantly as I had entered it. From nineteen to twenty-one I developed every aptitude and strengthened every faculty by constant practice.
He kept his gruff air, partly, perhaps, because he fancied he had deceived himself, but he took the glass of Bordeaux, and said: "Excuse me, comrade, but your Polytechnique does send such young officers " "The Chouans have younger ones," said the youth, laughing. "For whom did you take my son?" asked Madame du Gua.
"You are Captain Burke, of the Eighth Hussars, I believe, sir?" said the marshal, reading slowly from a slip of paper he held twisted round one finger. "Yes, sir." "By birth an Irishman," continued the marshal; "entered at the Polytechnique in August, 1801. Am I correct?" I bowed.
Martin, he grossly insulted this young man, who was, I think, an eleve of the Ecole Polytechnique, and a duel took place, under the lamp-post near the theatre, with swords. He ran F through the body, and left him dead upon the ground. The late Marshal St. A and General J were great duellists at this time, with a whole host of others whose names I forget.
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