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All this, and much more in the way of rich furnishings and handsome silver, was brought to the old castle to do honor to the Bretonne bride, who was destined to know little happiness in her new home.
Of all these writers, the one who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was Restif de La Bretonne. This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in Germany than anywhere else.
In 1777 Restif de la Bretonne proposed in his Gynographes that the communication of a venereal disease should itself be an adequate ground for divorce; this, however, is not at present generally accepted.
"Ah, sire!" said the monk, smiling, "the one I am thinking of stops there; but it commences at the feet." The lords present made such gallant remonstrances and supplications to the queen and her ladies, that, like the good Bretonne that she was, she gave the monk a gentle smile, and said "As you will, my father; but you must answer to God for our sins."
But Mary Ann, moving from mate to mate and farrowing from each, then savaging both them and the litter, has a musty sowishness that the Bretonne misses. Both foul, yes. But we needn't, we islanders, do any Jingo business in setting Mary Ann against Helene.
He gazed deep into Jeanne's dark tearless eyes. She continued in the same even voice: "My mother became mad. She was a peasant, a Bretonne, where the blood is fierce, and she screamed and clung to the bridle of the horse. And he rode her down and the horse trampled on her. Then he pointed at me, who was supporting the body of my father, and three men dismounted.
Relics of the 'fière Bretonne, as Louis called her, are still treasured everywhere, and it was pleasant to know not only that she was an accomplished woman, writing tender letters in Latin verse to her husband, but also a wise and just Princess to her people, 'showing herself by spirit and independence to be the most worthy of all her race to wear the ducal crown. So three cheers for good Duchesse Anne, and long life to the hardy, happy women of Brittany!
I hope, on my return, to find them more reconciled. At Villars de Bretonne, on my road hither, some people told me, with great gaiety, that the English had made a descent on the coast of Picardy.
He muttered something about making an examination of the clocks, adding that to adjust and regulate them would be a simple matter. She sat very still beside him on the stone coping her dark eyes wandered toward the forest wonderful eyes, dreamily preoccupied the visionary eyes of a Bretonne, full of the mystery and beauty of magic things unseen.
The little Bretonne, who had begun by disliking Louis d'Orléans, ended by loving him even more devotedly than her first husband, which does not seem strange to us, as he was a brave and accomplished gentleman, altogether a far more lovable character than Charles.
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