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A definitive edition of the works of Daudet has been published by Houssiaux, in octavo, 1899 ff. Convenient editions of most of them are published by Flammarion, Lemerre, Fasquelle, and others.
«We must see you immediately upon a matter of great importance. Plots have been discovered, and the conspirators are in our hands. Hasten !»
It was therefore obvious to Her Majesty's Government that M. de Pontois could not have been instructed or authorized by the French Government to hold at Constantinople a language directly the reverse of that which had been held by the French Government everywhere else, and the more especially as the language held by M. Pontois is directly at variance with all the public and official declarations made by the French Government of the principles upon which the policy of France, with regard to the affairs of the Ottoman Empire, is founded.
18 17 s'était vue: 'had been seen', cf. note to 5 23 comme: connect with fièrement in translation. 18 24 entre ses mains: 'in his hands'. 18 25
That the English engaged in no war before they had full and satisfying evidence that it was just, nor before peace, upon just terms, had been offered and refused. That the Mohawks, not being subject to them, nor in league with them, they could not require an account of their proceedings, and had no means of information what they had to say for themselves.
Having been branded with suspicion, he was compelled to leave the Court during the reign of Henry III., but was soon recalled. In 1562 he aided in the capture of Bourges from the Protestants and later succeeded the Marshall of St. André as Governor of Dauphiné. In 1566 he married Anne d'Este, widow of the Duke of Guise. His later years were spent in retirement from the Court.
Let him, however remind his noble friend, that prince de Talleyrand had been the Minister of the last two kings of France; that prince de Talleyrand had also had a large and important share in the deliberations of the congress of Vienna; the result of which deliberations the noble marquis thought so wise and so good.
If only he had continued as he began, if only he had remained the poet of the "Lettres de mon moulin"; if only he had not been led astray by his "task," he might have brought to the world of readers that happiness which he brought to his few friends in the attic of Auteuil. We are told the story of the publication of "Tartarin de Tarascon" by Daudet himself in his "Trente Ans de Paris."
Thence it is that an unarmed Englishman was safe in the midst of their wilds. The different system pursued in Africa by the French has been productive of very different results; there the French army, I am sorry to say, is tarnished by the character of their operations.
It has been superintended, above ail, by an accomplished gentleman, perfectly acquainted with both languages, and able, with a rare felicity, to be perfectly faithful to the English text, while rendering it in elegant and expressive French.
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