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It is needless for us to discuss the unprofitable question of why Mme. de La Fayette withheld her name from the titlepage, and would never own to the authorship. That La Princesse de Clèves was written by her, and her alone, the world is well agreed; and this is enough for us to know.
This place is of great consequence for two reasons, 1st. because it keeps the communication between Canada and Mississipi by the river Ohio open, which else our Indians would be able to intercept at pleasure, and 2d. if it should be made a fort with soldiers enough in it, it will keep our Indians from going over the narrow part of the lake Ontario by this only pass of the Indians without leave of the French, so that if it were demolished the far Indians would depend on us».
[Note 17: «Louisbourg is a little place and has but one casement in it, hardly big enough to hold the women. Our artillery made havock among them (the garrison) and soon opened the rempart: in two days more we should certainly have, carried it. If this force had been properly managed, there was an end of the french colony in North America, in one campaign, for we have exclusive of seamen and mariners, near to forty thousand men in arms.» Lettre du général Wolfe
At her solicitation Daudet was made one of the secretaries of the powerful Duke of Morny, president of the corps législatif . His duties were purely nominal. He now had money enough to keep the wolf from his door and was free to devote himself to literature. It was at this time that the stage began to attract him. His first play, "La Dernière Idole," was produced at the Odéon in 1862.
Great men are bored the rest of the time. 2. It's enough to make you die of excitement. 3. The fact is that a heroic soul like mine will scarcely enlarge its horizon at Tarascon. 4. He will seek to tear himself from his dream. 5. In the long run all he does to forget reality will serve only to keep him in a state of anger. 6. Do not give me bad advice. 7.
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