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The Red Inn

By: Honoré de Balzac

...n by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...it; misers count the stones on their plate and arrange them as a man- ager marshals his supernumeraries at the back of the stage. These are little gas... ... the courtyard. The stable is full of people. Do these gentlemen come from France?” he added after a slight pause. “From Bonn,” cried Prosper, “and we... ...is mother his last sigh.” “And did you?” “At the peace of Amiens I went to France, for the purpose of taking to the mother those blessed words, ‘He wa...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... municipal councils, un- der arms in the national guard of every canton in France,— one result of the year 1830, which failed to remember that Napoleo... ...ot remind you of all the castles in the air you have desired to possess in France you are not worthy to receive the present narrative of an astounded ... ...hrubs,—a yew trimmed in a way that recalls some long-decayed garden of old France, 9 Balzac and magnolias with hortensias at their feet. In short, th... ...n them, but they love them; they love them so well that they forget dukes, marshals, ri- valries, financiers, follies, luxuries, their paste jewels an... ...ubertin was a steward of the old system,—a swindler, such as the dukes and marshals of the Empire, those mushrooms bred from the common earth, were we...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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The Lances of Lynwood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...E M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...uspect, than any that we have at Bordeaux, to meet the wiles of Charles of France. No, unless the Royal Banner be abroad in the field, you may look to... ...with the various devices of the Prince: the lions of England—the lilies of France—the Bohemian ostrich-plume, with its humble motto, the white rose, n... ... with a laugh, “Nay, my Lord, this is the first time the ugliest Knight in France has been called by such a name. However, young Sir, may you win and ... ...alting his men under the shade of a few trees, he rode on in search of the marshals of the camp, and as soon as the open space for his tents had been ...

...Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to mak...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...abuse. For the revoked part I substitute the following: That, all provost-marshals and other military officers do pre- vent all disturbance and viole... ...rs, any tobacco in the United States belonging to the government either of France, Austria, or any other state with which this country is at peace, an... ...e departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly vindi- cated the neutrality whic... ...ot to say that the position of the Government in relation to the action of France in Mexico, as assumed through the State Department and in- dorsed by... ...he ordi- nary course of judicial proceedings or by the power vested in the marshals by law; and Whereas, immediately after the issuing of the said pro... ..., 1865 MAJOR-GENERAL POPE, St. Louis, Missouri: I understand that provost-marshals in different parts of Mis- souri are assuming to decide that the c...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nty, the General Government may give to the Territories governors, judges, marshals, sec- retaries, and all the other chief men to govern them, but th... ...u of sending ministers at once as follows: Dayton to En- gland; Fremont to France; Clay to Spain; Corwin to Mexico? W e need to have these points guar... ...oned last night—that is, Charles F. Adams to England, William L. Dayton to France, George P . Marsh to Sardinia, and Anson Burlingame to Austria. Thes... ...he South. FOR FOREIGN NA TIONS, I would demand explanations from Spain and France, cat- egorically, at once. I would seek explanations from Great Brit... ... ordinary course of judicial proceed- ings, or by the powers vested in the marshals bylaw: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United... ...cretary of the Navy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. July 30, 1861 ORDER TO UNITED STATES MARSHALS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 31, 1861 The Marshals ...

...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

By: Honoré de Balzac

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t with the exception of a few knots of young fellows from the same part of France who make a group about the end of a table, the gravity of the diners... ... genius for the sake of providing family reading for prud- ish England. In France you have the charming sinner, the brightly-colored life of Catholici... ...s I., for instance. You would give us in this way a picturesque history of France, with the costumes and furni- ture, the houses and their interiors, ... ...d work and gets good pay.” “You are like the recruits. They all want to be marshals of France. T ake old Giroudeau’s word for it, and turn right about...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...pered out of those plate-glass windows— the mitred bishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hat- ted abbes which they have borne in their time—the... ...ed considerably from sea-sickness during our pas- sage along the coasts of France and Spain, consoled us all by saying that the very minute we got int... ...adness of the inn) about landing at all. A person who wishes to understand France or the East should come in a yacht to Calais or Smyrna, land for two... ...tist, and greeted him with a bow and a smile, such as only can be found in France. Then she fell to talking with a young French officer with a beard, ...

...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nce, which was then in the rue Vivienne, and also not far from the Bank of France, then, and now, in the rue de la Vrilliere. There she bravely gave h... ...t the firms of Thelusson and of Keller to enter the service of the Bank of France. Lemprun, now the head of that service, enjoyed the respect and cons... ...llian Albion, and the model nation: Machiavellian, when the in- terests of France and of Napoleon are concerned; the model nation when the faults of t... ...be aware that barristers are to attorneys what generals 139 Balzac are to marshals. There exists a line of demarcation, strictly maintained, between ...

...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy ...

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Mcteague : A Story of San Francisco

By: Frank Norris

...ris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...hole was packed; even down to past- ing on the label, which read, “Made in France.” She earned from three to four dollars a week. The income from thes... ... his ele- ment during the whole time of the celebration. He was one of the marshals of the parade, and was to be seen at every hour of the day, wearin... ... her elbow on the table, together with a box of labels that read, “Made in France.” Her huge clasp-knife was stuck into the under side of the table. S... ...Teague One morning in November, about ten o’clock, Trina pasted a “Made in France” label on the bottom of a Noah’s ark, and leaned back in her chair w...

...e afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the p...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are to... ...day re- corded. Napoleon allotted Chambord, as a “dotation,” to one of his marshals, Berthier, for whose benefit it was converted, in Napoleonic fashi...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...is skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a duke and peer of France. The boy Louis had no lesser persons than the King and Queen Marie T... ...briand. But the work at once became uni- versally read and quoted, both in France and England. Macaulay made frequent use of it in his historical essa... ... night of the 15th of January, 1675, of Claude Duc de Saint-Simon, Peer of France, and of his sec- ond wife Charlotte de l’Aubepine. I was the only ch... ... and it is a thing unique that he, his son, and his grandson were not only Marshals of France, but all three were in succession seniors of that corps ... ...epted (who said a single word), voted without speaking, simply bowing; the Marshals and D’Effiat scarcely moved their eyes, and those of Villars glist... ...ept them low- ered for a long time. The rest of the spectators, except the marshals of France, appeared little affected by this desolation. But this—a...

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...y by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...robable future; to the maternal eyes a duke or an ambassador, a marshal of France or a minister of State, could alone give her Celestine her due place... ...nertia and named it “Report.” Let us explain the Report. When the kings of France took to themselves ministers, which first happened under Louis XV .,... ...d against, the less sound will be the judgment. The finest things of which France can boast have been accomplished without reports and where decisions... ...ely it was an absurdity to give separate administrations to admi- rals and marshals when both were employed to one end, namely, the defense of the nat...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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The Master of Ballantrae : A Winters Tale

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Master of... ...bert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of... ...ity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Master of... ...ight in the rain upon the inclination of a moun- tain. There was an Appin man, Alan Black Stewart (or some such name,* but I have seen him since in Fr... ...d, if you can call that rule which brought no or- der, by the terror he created; and I observed the man was very vain of his position. I have known ma... ...n call that rule which brought no or- der, by the terror he created; and I observed the man was very vain of his position. I have known marshals of Fr... ...our success tempted me as little as the chances of defeat. T wice we found women on board; and though I have seen towns sacked, and of late days in Fr...

...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer,...

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The Fovrth Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

... THE Fovrth BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF CAMBELAND TELAMOND, OR OF FRIENDSHIP. by Edmund Spencer is a public... ... CAMBELAND TELAMOND, OR OF FRIENDSHIP. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ld, They weened sure the warre was at an end, And Iudges rose, and Marshals of the field Broke vp the listes, their armes away to rend;... ...ut of his Albion did on dry foot pas Into old Gall, that now is cleeped France, To fight with Hercules, that did aduance To vanquish al...

...Excerpt: The rugged forhead that with graue foresight Welds kingdomes causes, & affaires of state, My looser rimes (I wote) doth sharply wite, For praising loue, as I haue done of late, And magnifying louers deare debate; By which fraile youth is oft to follie led, Through false allurement of that pleasing baite,...

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Mosses from an Old Manse

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...cation Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...iculty results from the invariably mistaken principles on which the deputy marshals seek to arrange this immense concourse of people, so much more num... ...ss and grace of man ner, which none understand so well as the nobility of France. That gait, now! A vulgar spectator might deem it stiff—he might cal... ...ld Manse which it was pretended had been manufactured for the Dau phin of France; together with an insect that buzzed about the ear like a living fly...

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The Nibelungenlied

By: Daniel B. Shumway

...Publication The Nibelungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ard both their castles and their land against the strangers. The lordings’ marshals led on the troop. Siegfried, too, was come with his men-at-arms, w... ...e. A similar one occurs in “Iwein”, 1355-1364. The usage was also known in France and England. See the instances quoted by Jacob Grimm in his “Rechtsa...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, an... ...d and fear- less as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over th... ... destination. There, luck befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were providentially in want of precisely that num- ber of men w... ...older fights his way, pell- mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the suc...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... And there shall be Ethel’s sharp face full of indescribable things as she marshals her children, and Richard shall be curate, and read in his steady ... ...ey had spent the early spring at Paris, had wandered about in the south of France, and now were at Paris again. Flora’s letters were long, de- scripti... ...ng no better, once bought all the beautiful carved fittings of a chapel in France, meaning to fit up a library with them; but, happily, he never did, ...

...Preface: No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the ?tale? for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both....

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ng those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light has come to us in the matter of history,—so l... ...istory might then have prepared the elements of a good and true history of France, the proofs for which had long been gathered by the Benedictines. Lo... ...me of the Prince de Polignac is given throughout the length and breadth of France to all bad horses that require whipping; and who knows how that will... ...dom, the Duc de Guise, was on horseback below the balcony, with two of the marshals of France and his staff captains. When the Prince de Conde appeare... ...rtainly the ecclesiastical equal, talked in a low voice to the Gondis. The marshals de Vieilleville and Saint-Andre and the keeper of the seals, who p... ...the reverie in which he was plunged. Robertet, the secretary of State, two marshals of France, Vieilleville, and Saint-Andre, and the keeper of the se...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal France, and Royal Proclamation to all the Provinces, answers anxiously, No;... ...ty months; and 10 The French Revolution—V olume Two see a wild-fermenting France work out its own destiny, and theirs. Months bleak, ungenial, of rap... ...re flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same. As ... ...appointed one of our Four supreme Generals. Rochambeau and Mailly, men and Marshals of note in these days, though to us of small moment, are two of hi...

...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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