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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Saxon" and "Norman," for example, no longer seem to us such simple terms as sufficed for the purpose of Scott's Ivanhoe or of Thierry's Norman Conquest, a book inspired by Scott's romance.
Jasmin had once before appeared at M. Thierry's before the best men of the Academy; and now the whole of the Academy, notwithstanding his patois, approached and honoured the man of good deeds. Jasmin owed to M. Villemain one of the most brilliant panegyrics which he had ever received.
It was sought after and obtained for a sum of money, say contemporaries, by Gaudri, a Norman by birth, referendary of Henry I., King of England, and one of those Churchmen who, according to M. Augustin Thierry's expression, "had gone in the train of William the Bastard to seek their fortunes amongst the English by seizing the property of the vanquished."
"Let me show you the room," she begged; "you can take him in the act." Her eyes, wild with the excitement of the chase, swept the circle. "Will you come?" she begged. Unconscious of the crisis he interrupted, the orderly on duty opened the door. "Captain Thierry's compliments," he recited mechanically, "and is he to delay longer for Madame d'Aurillac?"
"Let me show you the room," she begged; "you can take him in the act." Her eyes, wild with the excitement of the chase, swept the circle. "Will you come?" she begged. Unconscious of the crisis he interrupted, the orderly on duty opened the door. "Captain Thierry's compliments," he recited mechanically, "and is he to delay longer for Madame d'Aurillac?"
I rushed back again and sent my name in to the manager's office. He could not see me just then, but I said I would wait. After one hour, thoroughly impatient, taking no notice of the office-boy and the secretary, who wanted to prevent my entering, I opened the door of M. Thierry's office and walked in.
I was obliged to confess myself conquered, and to save, if it was still time, the last remains of my health." The last words of Thierry's Autobiographical Preface are most touching. "If, as I delight in thinking, the interest of science is counted in the number of great national interests, I have given my country all that the soldier mutilated on the field of battle gives her.
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