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A particular day having therefore been fixed upon, the Emperor brought together into his apartments those persons whose ministry was required in this case; amongst others, the Arch-Chancellor and M. Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely.
Once buried in the argillaceous mud, the bones no longer underwent the action of the running water, and their preservation was thence secured. F. Regnault, in La Nature.
A. Yes, the experiments of M. Regnault upon this subject have been very elaborate and very carefully conducted, and the results are probably more accurate than have been heretofore obtained.
In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names: Malin, head-clerk; Grevin, second-clerk; Athanase Feret, clerk; Jacques Heret, clerk; Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'Angely, clerk; Bedeau, youngest clerk and gutter-jumper. In the year of our Lord 1787.
Again there came into view the white and scarlet of the picture, the high light on the bare shoulder, the warm tint of the naked arm, the cheap diablerie of the posture, the splendid rebellion of the face. Regnault turned and stared at it under drawn brows. "Thank you, Emile," he said at last, and lay back on his pillow.
Francis I know him, he has a little apartment near the Quai St.-Michel, and an invalid mother. He is a perfect angel to her. I could take off my hat to him whenever I think of it. His voice dropped again. Regnault was pacing along across the Place, his arms behind him, David at his side. When he resumed, it was once more in a tone of despondency. 'There is an ideal; but so twisted, so corrupted!
Lest he should be denied admittance he had penciled on it, below his name, "with a message from M. Regnault, who is very ill." She was looking at him steadily, aware of his scrutiny. "I will hear your message," she said. "Please sit down." O'Neill took a chair where he could continue to see her face.
Any way, the far-seeing Frenchman had taken care not to forget in his collection some precious cuttings of the Médoc and Côte d'Or, upon which he counted particularly. The Reiset and Regnault apparatus always worked with extreme precision. The air was kept in a state of perfect purity.
On the 15th December, 1809, in a formally summoned meeting of the imperial family, with the arch-chancellor and Count Regnault d'Angely also present, Napoleon himself openly announced the resolution which he had taken.
During his entire career this mild, reserved gentleman from Aix came under the ban of the critics and the authorities, for he had shouldered his musket in 1871, as did Manet, as did Bazille, who, like Henri Regnault, was killed in a skirmish.
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