French Pictures in English Chalk: Our new bishop (Continued). L'ambulance tricoche. Our first success. Une petroleuse. A hero of the communeB. Tauchnitz, 1876 |
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Abbé Bonneau acolytes Amulis answered asked Baron Haussmann better bishop Bœuf à l'Huile Bonapartist Buche Censors Champterre cheering church Cirobois Citizen Bilia coat Colonel cried dance door dress English Chalk exclaimed eyes face Félicie Feucontenu Floriant francs French Pictures gentlemen Government Grainereau Grosgoulu hand head hear honour hour hundred Irubis Javelin Jules Favre Jules Torreau lady Lallouette Langouste laughing looked Lycée Bonaparte Madame Maillotin Marquis Masticot Mdlle Mdme ment Mimi Minister Mirabelle Monsieur morning municipal never Orleanist Paris PÉTROLEUSE Pictures in English Ponceau Prefect Préfet Préfète Proboscismos Ptolemy Raga-Muffin Raoul de Gardefer remarked Republican Rosemonde Rosière round Second Empire seemed Semolina shouted smile soldiers Sons of Brutus talk Théodore thing tion took Torreau senior Touscrétins Trémolin Tricoche turned Valkyrius Valkyrius-Gammo Vanilla Vive whilst woman word young Jules young Torreau Zephirine
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Page 93 - La victoire en chantant nous ouvre la barrière ; La liberté guide nos pas, Et du nord au midi la trompette guerrière A sonné l'heure des combats. Tremblez, ennemis de la France, Rois ivres de sang et d'orgueil ! Le peuple souverain s'avance ; Tyrans, descendez au cercueil.
Page 125 - Pericles said of his son's dog, Azor: "Azor rules my boy, my boy rules his mother, his mother rules me, I rule Athens, Athens rules Greece, and Greece rules the world — wherefore Azor is the ruler of the world.
Page 13 - And so he is very likely," answers Madame la Prefete; "but, after all, I don't think we can be blamed for not having voted for him. He would never do for a bishop; he would give all his clothes away to the poor, and leave himself not so much as his mitre to go to church in " The Prefect takes out his watch. "It's getting late," he interposes; "it's already past three.
Page 10 - State, we frtely confess that we could not do better than await the appointment which it may please his Majesty's Government to make, confident that the appointment will be of a nature to satisfy our most cherished hopes and fill us with the liveliest gratitude. At the same time, should his Majesty's Government have not yet made choice of a candidate, we would most humbly venture to pray your Excellency to consider the claims...
Page 13 - That can be done while you are collecting the signatures," says the Marquis; "but I think the best plan of action will be for us all to meet at the prefecture at two, after the petition has been signed. We can then go together, and call upon Canon Ponceau, to tell him what we have been doing; and after that go to the Abbe Bonneau, who can take the five o'clock train with us for Paris.
Page 20 - ... followed us in silence to see where we were going. So long as we were in the market-place the quiet continued; but when it became visible that we were making for the church precincts where the Canons lived, our escort took it as a matter of course that we were going to pay a visit of congratulation to M. Ponceau, and burst out into cheers, rare and faint at first, but growing gradually louder and more general, until they culminated into an immense and frantic roar • when we finally stopped...
Page 24 - Yes; at least we are going to call on the Abbe Bonneau first. We intend taking him with us to help plead your cause." . * "Dear me! but I am afraid you will be disappointed of finding him," answers M. Ponceau. "I do not think he is here." "Not here!" cries the Prefect, turning round. "No. I called at his house yesterday, and they told me he had gone to Paris.
Page 17 - ... into the streets to ask what the matter was. The day was a lovely one, and the cathedral bells, as it happened, were ringing full volley in honour of some saint. Of course this was somehow associated with the talk about M. le Chanoine Ponceau, and there were plenty who believed that the jubilant Canon was already treating himself to an exulting peal as thanksgiving for his appointment. Gradually a crowd began to gather round the door of the Mairie, where a copy of the petition was displayed for...
Page 18 - Our idea seems to have taken root," began the Marquis as soon as we were all collected. " And what a noise it is making ! " exclaimed the Marchioness, looking out of the window in astonishment at the tumultuous assemblage below. " Yes," says the Prefect with evident uneasiness. " I begin to wish we had let the business alone. If the Government have already thought of some one for the appointment, they will not thank me for having got up all this uproar.
Page 270 - That there were a few earnest men amongst the number nobody will gainsay. Jules Torreau was earnest, earnest and disinterested ; and he had three or four congenial backers. But I think when we have said four we shall have gone as far as truth will allow. As for the rest, I may be misjudging them, but can only say that if they were zealous patriots devoted to their country's good, and with souls exempt from selfish musings, this did not show either in their looks or their costume, and least of all...