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Lucien had refused this alliance on several different occasions; and at last the Emperor became angry, and said to him, "You see how far you are carrying your infatuation and your foolish love for a femme galante." "At least," replied Lucien, "mine is young and pretty," alluding to the Empress Josephine, who had been both the one and the other.
Beatrice's own couch was gorgeously adorned with draperies of mulberry colour and gold, and a crimson canopy bearing the names of Lodovico and Beatrice in massive gold, with red and white rosettes and a fringe of golden balls which alone was valued at 8000 ducats. "All," exclaimed Teodora "bello e galante, beyond words!"
In all, they discovered six islands on this day. Finding no harbor which satisfied him in Dominica, Columbus landed on the island of Maria Galante, and took possession of it in the name of the king and queen. Dr.
The island recently named La Deseada lies eighteen miles distant from the former island, and is twenty miles in circumference. There is another charming island lying ten miles to the south of Guadaloupe, which is called Galante; its surface is level and it is thirty miles in circumference. Its name was suggested by its beauty, for, in the Spanish, dandies are called galanes.
We have had a Count d'Usson and his wife these six weeks; and last Saturday arrived a Madame de Boufflers, sçavante, galante, a great friend of the Prince of Conti, and a passionate admirer de nous autres Anglois.
'Elle a duc flic-flac, was old Marcel's highest word of praise, and old Marcel was the dancing master that deserved the epithet of 'the Great. People used to say 'the Great Marcel, as they said 'Frederick the Great, and in Frederick's time." "Did Marcel compose any ballets?" inquired Finot. "Yes, something in the style of Les Quatre Elements and L'Europe galante."
'She seems to have stepped out of a book of French memoirs, said her ladyship. 'La vie galante et devote voila la Comtesse. In contradistinction to the other ladies, she did not detest the Countess because she could not like her. 'Where 's the harm in her? she asked. 'She doesn't damage the men, that I can see. And a person you can laugh at and with, is inexhaustible.
She became almost as powerful as Mme. de Pompadour, but her influence was not directed in the same channels. Her life was a mere senseless dream of femme galante, a luxurious revel, a constant whirl of pleasures, and extravagance in jewelry, silks, gems, etc. A service in silver was no longer rich enough—she had one in solid gold.
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