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This fortune consisted of some acres of land in the environs of Paris, which the old father still worked; besides this, she would have the property of Lemprun himself, a man who had left the firms of Thelusson and of Keller to enter the service of the Bank of France. Lemprun, now the head of that service, enjoyed the respect and consideration of the governors and auditors.
Thelusson says Jews have made a cracker by it. I dare say! Jews always do," muttered a fourth. "First Life would have given Beauty a million sooner than have him do it. Horrible thing for the Household." "But is he dead?" pursued their guest. "Beauty? Yes; smashed in that express, you know." "But there was no evidence?" "I don't know what you call evidence," murmured "the Dauphin."
A word, in conclusion, about Coppet! Necker bought the property from his old banking partner, Thelusson, for 500,000 livres in French money, and retired to live there when the French Revolution drove him out of politics. His daughter, Madame de Staël, inherited it from him, and made it famous. Not that she loved Switzerland; it would be more true to say that she detested Switzerland.
"Guard cut up fearfully rough," murmured one near him, known as "the Dauphin." "Such a low sort of thing, you know; that's the worst of it. Seraph's name, too." "Poor old Seraph! He's fairly bowled over about it," added a third. "Feels it awfully by Jove, he does! It's my belief he paid those Jew fellows the whole sum to get the pursuit slackened." "So Thelusson says.
This was, what he had sought after. Therefore, thanks to the excessive goodness M. and Madam de Luxembourg had for me, a clerk to M. Thelusson, who was sometimes pleased to give him his table when he had nobody else to dine with him, was suddenly placed at that of a marechal of France, with princes, duchesses, and persons of the highest rank at court.
Frascati, Rue de la Loi, S. Idalie, S. Hameau de Chantilly, aux Champs Elysees. Paphos, Boulevard du Temple. Vauxhall d'hiver. 40. d'ete, S. 41. a Mousseaux, S. 42. a St. Cloud, S. 43. au Petit Trianon, S. Jardin de l'hotel Biron, Rue de Varenne, S. Thelusson, Chaussee d'Antin, S. Marboeuf, Grille de Chaillot, S. 47. de l'hotel d'Orsay, S. Fetes champetres de Bagatelle, S.
This was, what he had sought after. Therefore, thanks to the excessive goodness M. and Madam de Luxembourg had for me, a clerk to M. Thelusson, who was sometimes pleased to give him his table when he had nobody else to dine with him, was suddenly placed at that of a marechal of France, with princes, duchesses, and persons of the highest rank at court.
Let us mention the Countess Hemi de Biron, the Marchionness Oudinot, the Countess de Noailles, who represented Margaret of Savoy, Claude Duchess of Lorraine, the Princess de Conde, the Princess of Ferrara; the Count A. de Damas, as Lanoue Bras-de-Fer; Monsieur de San Giacomo, as Francois de' Medici; the Countess de Montault, as Countess de Coligny; the Marchioness de Montcalm, as the Duchess de Bouillon; the flower of the English aristocracy, Lady Aldborough, Lady Rendlesham, Lady Cambermere, Lady Vernon, Lord Ramlagh, Captain Drummond, Lord Forwich, Lord Abayne, Miss Caulfuld, Miss Thelusson, Miss Baring, Miss Acton, and, lastly, the Counts de Cosse de Biron, and de Brissac, representing the three marshals of France whose names they bore.
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