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"Jesu! my dear cousin," said Catherine, "whatever are you saying?" After the victory of Dreux he had written to the king to express his wish to see conferred upon a candidate of his own choosing the marshal's baton left vacant by the death of Saint-Andre.
'My lord, they report, 'he has her in his strong tower on the plain of Saint-André, some ten leagues from here. Then cries the old King, 'Smoke him out, you fools! What! a badger. Draw the thief. Then Gilles the elder flattened his lips together and afterwards pursed them. 'Lord, he said, 'that we dare not do without your express commandment.
As soon as the duke and cardinal heard of his coming they sent the Marechal de Saint-Andre with an escort of a hundred men to meet him. When the prince and his own escort reached the gates of the chateau the marechal refused entrance to the latter. "You must enter alone, monseigneur," said the Chancellor Olivier, the Cardinal de Tournon, and Birago, who were stationed outside of the portcullis.
Only, these young Latinists went back for the associations of the word to its Roman original, to the three gallants of the distant time, rather than to those native French heroes Montmorenci, Saint-Andre, Guise too close to them to seem really heroic.
The malcontents for the absence of political liberty does not suppress them entirely raised their voices energetically against this last treaty signed by the king, with the sole desire, it was supposed, of obtaining the liberation of his two favorites, the Constable de Montmorency and Marshal de Saint-Andre, who had been prisoners in Spain since the defeat at Saint-Quentin.
You pass through the place, which seems in a singular degree vague and unconscious, and come to the rounded hill on which the ruined abbey lifts its yellow walls the Benedictine abbey of Saint-André, at once a church, a monastery, and a fortress.
Alas! nothing more." "How is your superb house in the Rue Saint-Andre des Arcs coming on? 'Tis a Louvre. I love greatly the apricot tree which is carved on the door, with this play of words: 'A L'ABRI-COTIER Sheltered from reefs." "Alas! Master Claude, all that masonry costeth me dear. In proportion as the house is erected, I am ruined."
Among the Jacobins, some of the maddest who are clear-sighted, on account of their fury, Guffroy, Antonelle, Jean Bon Saint-Andre, Collot d'Herbois, foresee the consequences and accept them along with the principle. Others, who avoid seeing it, are only the more determined in the application of it.
When one considers the amount of it, the beauty, originality and glory of it, one must acknowledge Frederic Chopin as one of the greatest piano geniuses of all time. In the south of France, near Grenoble, is found a romantic spot, La Côte Saint-André.
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