Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
The entire band repeated this quip in a voice of thunder, clapping their hands furiously. "You are going to seek a lodging in the Rue Thibautode, are you not, monsieur le recteur, gamester on the side of the devil?" Then came the turns of the other dignitaries. "Down with the beadles! down with the mace-bearers!" "Tell me, Robin Pouissepain, who is that yonder?"
"Good day, monsieur le recteur! Hola he! good day there!" "How does he manage to be here, the old gambler? Has he abandoned his dice?" "How he trots along on his mule! her ears are not so long as his!" "Hola he! good day, monsieur le recteur Thibaut! Tybalde aleator! Old fool! old gambler!" "God preserve you! Did you throw double six often last night?"
The elementary teacher is not appointed by his natural chief, the recteur or Minister of Public Education, he is appointed by the préfet, that is by the Minister of the Interior, the political head of the Government. In other words, this is the same process as the appointment of officials by the people, described a few pages back, but with one intermediary the less.
Tiennette, an old Breton servant sixty years of age, wearing a short gown and a Breton cap, came quickly in and took the abbe's coffee to warm it. "Let be, Monsieur le recteur," she said, seeing that the abbe meant to drink it, "I'll just put it into the bain-marie, it won't spoil it."
Chemistry is truly the despair of reason: on all sides it mingles with the fanciful; and the more knowledge of it we gain by experience, the more it envelops itself in impenetrable mysteries. Thus M. Liebig, after having banished from science hypothetical causes and all the entities admitted by the ancients, such as the creative power of matter, the horror of a vacuum, the esprit recteur, etc.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking