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...sisting that there is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they... ...absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man’s right of property; Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar, but in c... ... adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans and other opposition elements for the canvass of 1860, is recei... ...certainly true that if the National House shall fall into the hands of the Republicans, they will have to attend to all the other matters of national ... ... first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- lishment of our independence it became a part of ... ... Virginia afterward to transfer it to the General Govern- ment. There were French settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were... ...rench settlements in what is now Illinois, and at the same time there were French settlements in what is now Missouri, in the tract of country that wa... ..., in the tract of country that was not purchased till about 1803. In these French settlements negro slavery had existed for many years, perhaps more t... ... Union as a slave State. I have mentioned to you that there were a few old French slaves there. They numbered, I think, one or two hundred. Besides th...

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... gloomy apparition, with an accent which proved his difficulty in speaking French, “there Maine begins” (pointing with his huge, rough hand towards Er... ...“ga” is a relic of the Celtic language. It has passed from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient associa- tions ... ...ght to naught. Ha! we soldiers have a double mission,—not merely to defend French territory, but to preserve the national soul, the generous principle... ... the commandant, caught by this royal decoration (then almost forgotten by republicans), turned quickly to the young man’s face, which, however, he so... ... youth and distinguished manners, made this emigre a graceful image of the French noblesse. He presented a strong contrast to Hulot, who, ten feet dis... ...ed by Chouans who were fully as obstinate and far superior in numbers. The Republicans were surrounded on all sides by the Goatskins uttering their sa... ...ved the courage of the Blues. Instead of fight- ing only at one point, the Republicans spread themselves to three different points on the table-land o... ...e Chouans made good their retreat with a cleverness which disconcerted the Republicans and even the commandant. At the first word of command they form... ...er the death of a comrade without being thought unfeeling.” “He’s the true French soldier,” said Hulot, in a grave tone. “Just look at him pulling his...

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...Parisian to the level of the natural savage—a republican, a conspirator, a French- man, an old man, who outdid all we have heard of Negro determinatio... ...ther country; for there is no more resemblance between the English and the French constitutions than between the two lands. Thus Marcas’ place was in ... ...not care to admit him to their offices. Marcas could side neither with the Republicans nor with the Legitimists, two parties whose triumph would mean ... ...mbers, men devoid of political talent, unable to speak without murder- ing French grammar, and among whom, in ten years, scarcely one statesman has be... ...ife. When we spoke of this matter, a perennial theme of conversation among Frenchmen, he simply remarked: “Gowns cost too much.” He saw the look that ...

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...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ..., the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution o... ... maid taught them drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was ... ...rrounded by dangerous relations and intimate enemies. Every one knows that French literature at that particular period was endeavoring to defend itsel... ...viewed all parties and all shades of party, —pure republi- cans, presiding republicans, republicans without a republic, constitutionals without a dyna... ...hter of Eve “was maintaining, when you came in, that the royalists and the republicans have a secret understanding. You ought to know something about ...

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.................................................................. 27 Charlie French ....................................................................... ...l for me: “Taken from the evil to come.” 28 Spoon River Anthology Charlie French DID you ever find out Which one of the O’Brien boys it was Who snapp... ...orts of people, Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles, Where we spoke French and German, Italian, English. I wed Count Navigato, native of Genoa.... ...ade a nest in my skull Russian Sonia I, BORN in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen ye... ...life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers, Hating me, yet fearing my arm.... ...nativity. And there in Rome, among the artists, Speaking Italian, speaking French, I seemed to myself at times to be free Of every trace of my origin....

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... upon her lips, with chestnut hair and delicate white hands, was a typical French virgin, thoughtless, and without hidden thoughts, living her natural... ...take service in foreign countries if you are not forgotten here; or in the French army, if you are.” In the comfort that women give there is always a ... ...coration of the Legion of honor. No man offered a finer image of those old Republicans, incorruptible friends to the Empire, who re- mained the living...

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...l soon shoot up from Paris that will be a signal for Christendom. The keen French wit is sick of its compromise-king. All Europe is in convulsions in ... ...ave Signori Tedeschi? The sources are partly to be traced to a neat little French vaudeville, very sparkling—Camille, or the Husband Asserted; and aga... ...s- covered that he was in a hobble. A short duologue in their best stilted French ensued be- tween him and Ammiani. It was pitched too high in a for- ... ...r told them that he had merely interchanged amicable commonplaces with the Frenchman,—”or Italian,” he added carelessly, reading the card in his hand.... ...nd of “her Emilia!” and soon after she addressed Luigi in English, then in French, then in “barricade Italian” (by which phrase Luigi meant that the I... ...demned the Republican spirit of Milan more regretfully than severely . The Republicans were, he said, impracticable. Beyond the desire for change, the... ...three principles, in three styles. The Legitimists, the Moderates, and the Republicans are to proclaim themselves in its columns in prose, poetry, and... ...d in the king’s handwriting. Suffering has made Carlo Alberto one with the Republicans, if he had other ambitions once. And Carlo dedi- cates his bloo... ...hey parted. It was in the early days of March that Merthyr, then among the Republicans of Rome, heard from Laura Piaveni. Two letters reached him, one...

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... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon... ... dis- ordered thoughts and violent impulses. For more than a cen- tury the French system exhausted its vitality in belligerent convulsions, and then t... ...esently his battalion came up from the depot to London, to entrain for the French frontier. He tells of children and women and lads and old men cheeri... ...n the verge of destruction, only ten, indeed, remained unwounded, when the republicans burst in to the rescue…. 105 H G Wells S S S S Section 6 ectio...

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...ntly, the last election of Francois Keller had been dis- turbed by certain republicans, whose red caps and long beards had not, however, seriously ala... ...e Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cygnes, or even, the King of the French. The numerous partisans of old Gondreville, the king of the departme... ... Grevin’s brother-in-law, a miller named Laurent Goussard, the head of the republicans of Arcis, the two assistant mayors, the printer and publisher o... ...me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that many sufferings—” At t... ...nning of 1814, Phileas had emptied his warerooms. The prospect of a war on French soil, the hard- ships of which were likely to press chiefly on Champ... ...d these facts. When the war ravaged Champagne, he kept himself between the French army and Paris. After each lost battle he went among the workmen who... ... read the words: Quo me trahit fortuna. Though he was not strong enough in French blazon to know the house that bore that device, Antonin felt sure th... ...ss and her aide-de-camp, the organist, launched the candidate, and at once republicans, legitimists, conservatives, clergy, nobility, bourgeoisie, in ...

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...Before reaching this enclosure from the height of an emi- nence such as we Frenchmen rather conceitedly call a moun- tain, at the foot of which lies t... ..., whiter than the starry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost giv... ...ld turns upside down like an hour- glass, when the seas become continents, Frenchmen will find canons, steamboats, newspapers, and maps wrapped up in ... ... his eggs. The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courag... ...e be jealous of the late Mademoiselle Laguerre? Our modern Bourets have no French nobles now to show them how to live; they hire one opera-box among t... ...y tone of the wantons of the old time, “people must live, even if they are republicans.” The terrible Mademoiselle Cochet, her maid and female vizier,...

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...ding, as he did invariably, “And uh— Oh, and you might give me an order of French fried pota- toes.” When the chop came he vigorously peppered it and ... ...re’s a whole lot of valuable time lost even at the U., studying poetry and French and subjects that never brought in anybody a cent. I don’t know but ... ...mitation English hunt- ing-print, an anemic imitation boudoir-print with a French caption of whose morality Babbitt had always been rather suspicious,... ...that case, Carlo, just bring me a hunk o’ steak and a couple o’ bushels o’ French fried potatoes and some peas,” Rogers went on. “I suppose back in de... ... Garibaldi, just shoot me in that steak, with about two printers’-reams of French fried spuds 152 Babbitt on the promenade deck, comprehenez-vous, Mi... ...yor of Zenith on an alarming labor ticket. To oppose him the Democrats and Republicans united on Lucas Prout, a mattress-manufacturer with a perfect r... ...that there would some day be a Third Party which would give trouble to the Republicans and Democrats. Escott shook hands with Babbitt three times, at ...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...fortune in one of those wicked conceptions which reflect such discredit on French commerce, but which, in the year 1827, had not yet been exposed and ... ...rown pretentious with wealth, without, at the same time, learning to speak French. She was now very fat, and gave the idea, in her rich surroundings, ... ...o protect even its most devoted servants (witness the Gisquet affair), the republicans have ended by ruining Cerizet. I tell you this to explain how i... ...tence he received; declaring it to be a revengeful plot on the part of the republicans, who, he said, would never forgive him for the hard blows he ha...

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...in command on the western frontier of Pennsylvania against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory , but the safety of him- self and hi... ... Mr. Le Quoi whether there is any danger.” It was not in the nature of the Frenchman to disappoint expectations so confidently formed; although he cat... ...er a precipice, which fell perpendicu- larly more than a hundred feet. The Frenchman, who by his position had a full view of their threatened flight, ... ...ing men seize at straws, he admirably served the purpose of an anchor. The Frenchman, who was on his legs, in the act of springing from the sleigh, to... ...tain just now.” “Praise be God, I no fly down into the lake,” returned the Frenchman, with a visage that was divided between pain, oc- casioned by a f... ...been many battles fought lately,” continued Marmaduke, “and the infuriated republicans are too often vic- torious. I cannot say , however, that I am s...

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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............... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ............

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ... sister could have known him, he attempted vainly to interest her in these French luminar- ies by reading extracts from their frequent letters; which,... ...by his “Travels in Spain and Sicily,” &c.,) Mrs. Lee, whose education in a French con- vent, aided by her father’s influence, had introduced her ex- t... ...nt generosity of his temper, he had powerfully sympathized with the French republicans at an early stage of their revolution; and having, with great i... ... person a neglect of clean- liness, even beyond the affected negligence of republicans.” T ruc, however, happily, was not leader; and the principles o...

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... the Custom-house. The fashion that is called En- glish in Paris is called French in London, and this is recipro- cal. The hostility of the two nation... ...Paris by an Englishwoman, were invented in Lon- don, it is known why, by a Frenchwoman, the notorious Duchess of Portsmouth. They were at first so jee... ...nd Brunet in Les Anglaises pour rire; but in 1816 and 1817 the belt of the Frenchwoman, which in 1814 cut her across the bosom, gradually descended ti... ...by the great Gazette, and the Pa- triot, which frisked in the hands of the Republicans. Paris sent them a young man, knowing nothing about la Franche ... ...occasion to repress them. She imitated the police in its dealings with the republicans; but she labored in vain. Rosalie showed no symptoms of rebelli... ...st, noblest, and richest 16 Albert Savarus families in Belgium.” “He is a Frenchman, and no man’s son,” replied Amedee de Soulas. “If he wishes to be... ...he moon was shining brightly, he suddenly rose. “Fear nothing,” said he in French to the Italian girl, “I am not a spy. You are refugees, I have guess... ...de Watteville to win his lawsuit.”— “If you vote for Monsieur Savarus, the Republicans will vote with you rather than with the Moderates!” etc., etc. ...

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...ticle” and to reason upon it suitably. He asked nothing, however, from the republicans. In the first place, he inclined in republican ideas,—the only ... ...esides which he had already dipped into 11 Balzac the conspiracies of the French “carbonari”; he had been ar- rested, and released for want of proof;...

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...udes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the ... ...od one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians of Walter Scott’s ta... ...nymous fame. Though a mixture of verse and prose is a monstrous anomaly in French literature, there must be exceptions to the rule. This tale will be ... ... in soci- ety. Though the sound common sense which lies at the root of the French nature was not perverted, women were suf- 36 The Muse of the Depart... ...time, would certainly have been hooted. The provin- cial public—like every French public, perhaps—does not share the love of the King of the French fo... ...ds of the sergeants of La Rochelle; who, at this day, are guillotining the republicans who take up arms against the throne as established by the revol...

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...ntury in which men and things bore the characteristics of simplicity which French manners and customs are losing day by day. Follow the wind- ings of ... ...s a master-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher. At the period when the French Republic offered for sale the church property in the arrondissement ... ...the Empire he was called Monsieur Grandet. Napoleon, however, did not like republicans, and superseded Monsieur Grandet (who was supposed to have worn... ...ency of the weather, gave an appear- ance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which ... ... of Madame Grandet, old Monsieur de la Bertelliere, as a lieutenant in the French guard, and the deceased Madame Gentillet in the guise of a shep- her... ...Grandet. No one in Anjou heard better, or could pronounce more crisply the French language (with an Angevin accent) than the wily 84 Eugenie Grandet ...

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...ff; and he was seen no more till just before dinner, when, with a shade of French malice, Mrs. Frost inquired about Jane and the carpenter: she had se... ...at do they say in London about the invasion?’ It was the year 1847, when a French invasion was in every one’s mouth, and Sydney Calcott had been retai... ...the high-spirited girl. Formal walks, silent meals, set manners, perpetual French, were a severe trial, but far worse was the companionship. Petty van... ...h. Oh, so different from granny teaching me my notes, or Jem teach- ing me French—’ ‘Growling at you—’ ‘He never growled half as much as, I deserved. ... ...aning of this?’ asked James, as they went up stairs. Louis shrugged like a Frenchman, looked debonnaire, and said ‘Good-night.’ Again he came down; pr... ...ery minute, and, now that the panic was over, gave great credit to the Red Republicans for having served her so effectually, and forgave the young peo...