Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volumen2C. Scribner's sons, 1890 |
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Página 146 - The dinner was served : one of the turbots relieved the soup. Delight was in every face—it was the moment of the eprouvette^. positive. The maitre ff hotel advances ; two attendants raise the turbot and carry him off to cut him up ; but one of them loses his equilibrium : the attendants and the turbot roll together on the floor. " At this sad sight the assembled cardinals became pale as death, and A SOLEMN SILENCE REIGNED IN THE CONCLAVE—it was the moment of the eprouvette negative; but the maitre...
Página 239 - ... government; and the day after his release, the same piece was performed. When Brunet should have made the interdicted reply, he was silent. The other actor repeated the inquiry as to what he was doing ? Still Brunet made no answer, and the other with an air of impatience proceeded, " Perhaps, you do not know what you are about?" " Oh, yes !" said Brunet, " I know very well what I am about, but I know better than to tell.
Página 384 - He then calculated the amount of the sums which the Empress Josephine must have received from him : and added that, with a little order and regularity, she might, probably, have left behind her fifty or sixty million francs.
Página 36 - Bourrienne, this is sacred! Do not lose a minute. Send the old man ten times the sum. Write to General Durosel, that he shall be immediately erased from the list of emigrants. What mischief those brigands of the convention have done ! I can never repair it all.
Página 332 - ... of the table. His dispositions are naturally good ; but he is too indolent for study ; he does not read, and since he has been tied to his wife's apron-strings is fit for nothing. He sees only with the eyes of his wife and her mother, who have had a hand in all these late plots ; and then, Bourrienne, is it not very strange, that it was by my advice that he entered into this union ? I was told that Mademoiselle Hulot was a Creole, and I believed that he would find in her a second Josephine ;...
Página 260 - Duke d'Enghien, who might now be convicted " of forming part of this new conspiracy, and taken "in the very act, should be that one. It was added, " that he had been seen at Strasburg ; that it was . " even believed that he had been in Paris ; and " that the plan was, that he should enter France " by the east, at the moment of the explosion, " whilst the Duke of Berry was disembarking in " the west. I should tell you...
Página 128 - On departing from Toul we intended to breakfast at Nancy, for every stomach had been empty for two days, but the civil and military authorities came out to meet us, and prevented us from executing our plan. We continued our route, wasting away, so that you might see us growing thinner every moment. To complete our misfortune, the dormeuse, which seemed to have taken a fancy to embark on the Moselle for Metz, barely escaped an overturn.
Página 146 - By a fortunate coincidence, two turbots of singular beauty arrived as presents to his Eminence on the very morning of the feast. To serve both would have appeared ridiculous, but the Cardinal was most anxious to have the credit of both. He imparted his embarrassment to his chef. " Be of good faith, your Eminence," was the reply ; " both shall appear ; both shall enjoy the reception which is their due.
Página 77 - I have heard it said that she was one of the most charming women of her time. She was tall, and her figure had all the suppleness and grace so common to women born in the East. 'Her complexion was dazzling, her eyes of the brightest blue, and her slightly retrousse nose gave her, singularly enough, a look of Talleyrand himself. Her fair golden hair was of proverbial beauty.
Página 375 - His holiness went to meet the emperor at a desk which had been placed in the middle of the choir : there was another on one side for the empress. After saying a short prayer there, they returned, and seated themselves on the throne at the end of the church facing the choir ; there they heard mass, which was said by the pope. They went to make the offering, and came back ; they then descended from the platform of the throne, and walked in procession to receive the holy unction. The emperor and empress,...