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There are no regulations for you!" At last the train started, proceeding on its way to Soissons, where it arrived at daybreak on August 29, the ambulance then hastening to join MacMahon, and reaching him just in time to be of good service at Sedan. I will only add here that my friend Dr. Blewitt was with Dr. Frank at Balan and Bazeilles, where the slaughter was so terrible.
The next to claim the imperial title was Louis Napoleon, who in 1851 had himself crowned as Napoleon III. But his so-called empire was confined to France, and fell in 1870 on the field of Sedan, himself and his army being taken prisoners. A republic was declared in France, and the second French empire was at an end.
The road and countryside over which he returned in the motor sedan, partly frozen, were streaked by rills of muddy surface water; the sky, which appeared definitely to rest on the surrounding hills, was grey with a faint suffusion of yellow at the western horizon. It was all as dreary, as sodden, as possible.
It is said by General Vinoy's friends that those observations are mainly the cause why he has been deprived of his independent command, and placed under the orders of General Ducrot, with respect to whose evasion from Sedan many French officers shake their heads. I cannot help thinking that the result of the vote of the army on Thursday last is only relatively correct.
They showered attentions upon Sara until she was so delighted that she scarcely knew how to deport herself. They proclaimed her a heroine; they brought a sort of sedan chair, borne, not by the common cabbage butterflies who usually carried them, but by a Chrysophanus hypophlaeas and a Lavatera assurgentiflora.
It was like the gilt ornamentation on a velvet pall. When I returned from Chamounix to Geneva, the proprietor of the hotel was standing in the doorway and shouted to me: "The whole of the French army, with the Emperor, has been taken prisoner at Sedan!" "Impossible!" I exclaimed.
Caseldy seized the opportunity while handing her into her sedan to say, 'We will try the fortune-teller for a lucky day to have our revenge. She answered: 'Oh, don't talk to me about playing again ever; I'm nigh on a clean pocket, and never knew such a sinful place as this. I feel I've tumbled into a ditch. And there's Mr. Beamish, all top when he bows to me. You're keeping Chloe waiting, sir.
The king's sedan now stopped, and Catharine hastened forward with smiling face, to assist her royal husband in alighting. Henry greeted her with a gracious nod, and rejected the proffered aid of the attendant pages. "Away," said he, "away! My Catharine alone shall extend me her hand, and give me a welcome to the bridal chamber.
He had halted for a second in front of the manager, but resumed his pacing with a mutter of subterranean thunder: "Mounet-Sully!" "Hasn't the public got a mind?" cried Canby. "Doesn't the public understand that a good play might be ruined by these scoundrels?" Old Tinker returned his chartreuse glass to the case whence it came, a miniature sedan chair in silver and painted silk.
Not desiring at any price to restore Sedan to him, he granted the equivalent demanded a great domain at Château-Thierry, much richer than that of Sedan, and, without effective sovereignty, that title of Prince, so dear to the vanity of the Bouillons, which the head of the family could not only transmit to his children, but which could descend also to his brother Turenne.
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