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During this same month of September, a large number of the faithful having assembled according to custom on Mount Valerien, the archbishop likewise repaired to the spot to hear mass.
The American Ambulance surgeon turned about and scanned the parapets of the bridge. "Any news, Doctor," asked Trent mechanically. "News?" said the doctor; "I don't know any; I haven't time to know any. What are these people after?" "They say that the Army of the Loire has signalled Mont Valerien." "Poor devils."
The sun was surrounded by white clouds, spread in masses over an azure sky. Reaching the Bois de Boulogne by eight o'clock, Jean Jacques set to work botanising. As he collected his little harvest, we kept walking along. Arrived on the edge of the river, we crossed the ferry with a number of people whom devotion was taking to Mont Valérien.
"That was a good shot," the astronomer said, as he sat with his eyes at his telescope watching the fort. "A shell burst right on one of the embrasures." A minute or two later came a rushing sound, rising rapidly to a scream; instinctively most of those on the roof ducked their heads. "Valerien is waking up," Cuthbert said; "here comes another."
Six weeks afterwards, in the Church of Notre Dame, some one was singing the Te Deum in honor of the treason of December thus making God a partner in a crime. This man was the Archbishop Sibour. Of the two hundred and thirty Representatives prisoners at the barracks of the Quai d'Orsay fifty-three had been sent to Mount Valérien. They loaded them in four police vans.
He is a villanous old rascal." In studying the history of the Commune, it is desirable to remember dates. The whole affair lasted seventy-three days. On March 18 the guns on Montmartre were taken by the populace, Generals Lecomte and Thomas were shot, and the Commune was proclaimed. Military operations were begun April 4. On April 9 Fort Valérien began to throw shells into Paris.
There are lilacs in the room and the Mont Valérien is beautiful upon a great lemon sky, and the long avenue is merging into violet vapour. "We have already begun to think of where we shall go to this year. Last year we went to P , an enchanting place, quite rustic, but within easy distance of a casino.
The opening of the loop is hilly, and the hills run along the St. Cloud side of the loop as far as Mont Valérien, and on the other side as far as Rueil. About half a mile from Mont Valérien following the river is St. Cloud; and between St.
They were wholly mistaken; the guns of Fort Valérien crashed into the midst of their columns, and almost at the same time Flourens, in a hand-to-hand struggle, was slain. Flourens had begun life with every prospect of being a distinguished scientist.
Yonder behind us, like a sentinel, rises Mont Valerien. Before us glimmer the lamps of uncountable coaches, as our own, veering toward the city, the moon just topping the tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie and silver-plating the bronze figures upon the Arch of Stars. "We enter the Port Maillot. We turn into the Avenue du Bois.
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