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On the ground-floor of the house, across the passage, and facing the kitchen and the scullery, there were two other rooms, a library overlooking the Place du Tertre, and a dining-room whose windows opened into the garden. The four rooms on the first floor served as bedchambers for the father and the sons.
It is not everybody who knows the virtue of the genuine Fronsac, especially that which was yielded by the old vines before the phylloxera destroyed them, but most people are familiar with the brand. But for this, the tertre would long since have ceased to be famous, notwithstanding Charlemagne. The hill has a strange appearance, for it rises abruptly from the river bank in the midst of the plain.
Tea, introduction of, into France Temple, the Teresa, Maria. See Maria Teresa Tertre, Duport de. Teschen, peace of; Princess of, visits her sister, the queen, in 1786. Thanksgiving, public, at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. "The Handsome," a name given to the Count Axel de Fersen. Theatre, tumult at the. Theatres, the dauphin and dauphiness visiting the Parisian. Theatricals, private.
He, from his father's garden, up yonder on the Place du Tertre, could see her through the huge window of that studio where she led so innocent a life. And noticing that she was always alone, as if forsaken, he had begun to take an interest in her.
Then, too, there was a bedridden old woman in a hovel in the Rue du Mont-Cenis. The baker, who every morning took her the bread she needed, must be paid. And in particular there was a poor young woman residing on the Place du Tertre, one who was unmarried but a mother.
Father Du Tertre, a French missionary in St. Christophe, describes one which he witnessed in 1642, a year memorable for three. During the second of these, more than twenty vessels, laden with colonial produce and just ready to sail for Europe, were wrecked in the harbor, including the ship of De Ruyter, the Dutch Admiral.
Then, too, there was a bedridden old woman in a hovel in the Rue du Mont-Cenis. The baker, who every morning took her the bread she needed, must be paid. And in particular there was a poor young woman residing on the Place du Tertre, one who was unmarried but a mother.
Over a distance of eight miles, moreover, there extends or extended at the time I refer to a track called the Chemin des Boeufs, suitable for defensive purposes, with high ground at at least two points Le Tertre Rouge, south-east of Le Mans, and La Tuilerie, south of the town.
He was led to his fate with the respected Duport du Tertre, one of the last ministers of Louis XVI. when he had ascended the scaffold, Barnave stamped, raised his eyes to heaven, and said: "This, then, is the reward of all that I have done for liberty!" He fell on the 29th of October, 1793, in the thirty-second year of his age; his bust was placed in the Grenoble Museum.
Little had been seen of Chanzy on the two previous days, but that morning he mounted horse and rode along the lines from the elevated position known as Le Tertre Rouge to the equally elevated position of Yvre. I saw him there, wrapped in a long loose cloak, the hood of which was drawn over his kepi.
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