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Updated: June 29, 2025
Mme. la Presidente gave herself the airs of a queen; she wore vivid colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in France. Each of the pair had an income of four or five thousand francs, which with the President's salary, reached a total of some twelve thousand.
We never heard his answer, but in less than ten minutes, the presidente, covered with perspiration, was waiting for our orders and every policeman or the force was ready for our bidding. The message he received from the jefe must have been vigorous, for not only was everything done for our comfort, but work was rushed.
The presidente demurred; he doubted whether the people would come to be measured; we told him that they would not come, of course, unless he sent for them. When morning came, although everything had been done for our comfort, there was no sign of subjects.
But the bailiff, smiling in his turn, seemed afraid to repeat it, and so his Majesty said: "I was told of her answer at the time, so I can let you know what it was. 'Your young King will turn out a despot. That is what Madame la Presidente said to her husband." The bailiff, somewhat confused, admitted that this was exactly the case.
From Madame Adolphe de Chodoreille to Madame la Presidente de la Roulandiere, at Viviers. "Ah! my poor Claire, could you have known how many wretched little griefs your innocent letter would awaken, you never would have written it.
We rode up to the municipio, where we found the presidente, a rather stylish young fellow, who was interested in our work and helpful. The town controls fourteen thousand persons, and its name is derived from that of a large ahuacate, the Aztec name of which is pahuatl. The presidente assured us that there was no Totonac town, properly speaking, within the limits of the municipio.
After other fruitless efforts to get food for ourselves and animals we resigned ourselves to our fate, and lay down upon the stone floor of the corridor outside the meson, with a crowd of sleeping indians as companions. Very early in the morning, all the town officials, except the presidente, came to apologize for the occurrence of the night.
"If this is so," said the Presidente, "I made a great mistake in quarreling with him and throwing the blame " she thought aloud, amazed by the possibility of such a sum. "No, madame.
Later, at the end of a sunrise collation, Presidente Rodriguez rose and, with one hand on his heart and the other clutching the stem of a wine glass, metaphorically presented the keys of San Blanco to the "Saviour of his country," and intimated not only a permanent suspension of tariff regulations in his favor, but a future statue of heroic size in the palace plaza. Whereat Mr.
The Spaniard created a "presidente" and a "vice-presidente" for the various pueblos he sought to control, but these men, as often Ilokano as Igorot, were the avenue of Spanish approach to the natives they were almost never the natives' mouthpiece. The influence of such officials was not at all of the nature to create or foster the feeling of political unity.
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