six-foot-seven

Updated: July 10, 2025

Louis Napoleon gave the title to my father for not cutting him in the Bois. I have a house in the Champs Elysees. There is a Swiss in its courtyard. He stands six-foot-seven in his stockings, and the chasseurs are hardly less tall than he. Wherever I go, there are two chefs in my retinue. Both are masters in their art, and furiously jealous of each other.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story