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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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... 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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...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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...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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... Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A story of the French Revolution A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication A Tale of T... ...unity University. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [A story of the French Revolution] Book the First—Recalled to Life I The Period IT WA S T... ...of travelling, sir, in T ellson and Company’s House.” “Yes. We are quite a French House, as well as an English one.” “Yes, sir. Not much in the habit ... ...ernoon, and the air, which had been at intervals clear enough to allow the French coast to be seen, became again charged with mist and vapour, Mr. Lor... ...ickens 20 business we usually call our connection our customers. He was a French gentleman; a scientific gentleman; a man of great acquirements a Doc... ...s. Every eye was turned to the jury. The same determined patriots and good republicans as yesterday and the day be fore, and to morrow and the day af... ...he affirmative: seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans, and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republican...

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...kenness, for freedom of language, and for unparalleled political dissension. There are adherents of each of the four French parties – Legitimists, Orl... ...ical dissension. There are adherents of each of the four French parties – Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans – in this little moun... ...st pretentious I have ever visited; but I saw many more of the like upon my journey. Indeed, it was typical of these French high- lands. Imagine a cot... ...alled to dinner, I felt chilly in and out. When I had eaten well and heartily, Brother Ambrose, a hearty conversible Frenchman (for all those who wait... ...lean and whitewashed, and furnished with strict necessaries, a crucifix, a bust of the late Pope, the imi- tation in French, a book of religious medit... ... at a convent of nuns in Belgium, and now five at Our Lady of the Snows; he never saw an English newspaper; he spoke French imperfectly, and had he sp...

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... In his speech opening the campaign of 1858, he spoke of Lincoln, whom the Republicans had dared to advance as their candidate for “his” place in the ... ...d to force a lasting breach in the Democratic party, seriously advised the Republicans of Illinois to give up their opposition to Douglas, and to help... ...e Democrats would have the South. In order to succeed in the election, the Republicans had to win, in addition to the States carried by Fremont in 185... ...d with the energy of genuine enthusiasm on the antislavery side the united Republicans defeated the divided Democrats, and Lincoln was elected Preside... ...artisan- ship reiterated this cry with vociferous vehemence, and even many Republicans grew afraid of the victory they had just achieved at the ballot... ... to say that five millions of the expenditure of 1838 were payments of the French in- demnities, which I knew to be untrue; that five millions had bee...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...839 he was elected to the Cham- ber of Deputies. He became a member of the French Acad- emy in 1841. In 1848 he was in the Assembly, and from June 2nd... ...rom the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pomp... ...out its protection. Nothing, how- ever, is further from the designs of the republicans of Europe than this course: as many of them owe their hatred of... ...eristics – America has had great parties –They are extinct – Federalists – Republicans – De- feat of the Federalists – Difficulty of creating parties ... ...coming from day to day too vio- lent to be checked or stemmed. In 1801 the Republicans got possession of the Government; Thomas Jefferson was named Pr... ...ues or the talents of their leaders that they had risen to power. When the Republicans attained to that lofty station, their opponents were overwhelme...

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...f the States had, in the first instance, been thought desirable. The young republicans hankered after the separate power and separate name which each ... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...ordinary honesty. It is not by foreign voices, by English newspapers or in French pamphlets, that the corruption of American politicians has been expo... ... may be that our own soldiers were as badly treated in the Crimea; or that French soldiers were treated worse in their march into Russia. It may be th... ...ch through various denominations have sprung those who now call themselves Republicans, was Alexander Hamilton. I be- lieve I may say that all the pol... ...have a close and warm sympathy with those Transatlantic anti-monar- chical republicans who are endeavoring to prove to the world that they have at len... ...ment. Mr. Lincoln was then proclaimed as the Republican candidate, and all Republicans were held as bound to support him. When the time came for the c...

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...trate. Louis XIV . had long been the enemy of the Dutch, who insulted or ridiculed him to their hearts’ content, although it must be said that they ge... ...us to get off so cheaply. Some of the agitators whispered, “He will be off, he will escape from us!” Others replied, “A vessel is waiting for him at S... ...f a good citizen.” “First of all,” said the Count, “I am not a citizen, but an officer, which is a very different thing; and secondly, I am not a Holl... ... to fail, all their thoughts were engrossed by that great black tulip, which was looked upon to be as chimerical as the black swan of Horace or the wh... ...; and thus the hatred which every rich man has to encounter in times of civil wars will be soothed down, and I shall be able, without fearing any harm... ...an- cier, participated in the detestable intrigues and abominable plots of the brothers De Witt against Dutch nationality and in their secret relation... ...ermi- nation, in that Holland is the home of fetes; never did slug- gish natures manifest more eager energy of the singing and dancing sort than those... ...nt as a garden in spring, marched the learned societies of the town, the magistrates, the military, the nobles and the boors. The people, even among t...

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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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.................................................................. 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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...roof of my rashness. What I care to remember best is the testimony of some French readers who volunteered the opinion that in those hundred pages or s... ...trick of smoothing his long white beard whenever he was short of a word in French or En- glish imparted an air of leisurely dignity to the tone of his... ...Liberator,” he declared. “My incomparable mother, God rest her soul, was a French-woman, the daughter of an ardent republi- can. As a boy I fought for... ... “‘I do not know, señora,’ I said. ‘They will treat you well, no doubt. We republicans are not savages and take no vengeance on women.’ “She gave me a... ... savages and take no vengeance on women.’ “She gave me a look at the word ‘republicans’ which I imagined full of undying hate. But an hour or so after... ...m, and go to sleep with the necessity of the chambardement général, as the French slang has it, of the general blow-up, always present to his mind? An... ...ment. It is sufficient, for instance, to point out the attitude of the old French aristocracy towards the philosophers whose words were preparing the ...

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...s corroborated by a despatch from General King at Fredericksburg, saying a Frenchman, just arrived from Richmond by way of Gordonsville, met 10,000 to... ...ts from Rich- mond to Jackson could be in Gordonsville, as reported by the Frenchman and your deserters. Have not all been sent to de- ceive? A. LINCO... ...I under- stand you now to be willing to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided they have “heart in it.” Agreed. I want no others. Bu... ... ol Six reject all I should be advised to reject, I should have none left, Republicans or others not even yourself. For be assured, my dear sir, there... ...ng their faith with their blood, Baker and Lyon and Bohien and Richardson, Republicans, did all that men could do; but did they any more than Kearny a... ...any more than Kearny and Stevens and Reno and Mansfield, none of whom were Republicans, and some at least of whom have been bitterly and repeatedly de... ...he coast of Cuba between the United States war steamer San Jacinto and the French brig Jules et Marie, resulting in serious damage to the latter. The ... ...in this, the subject was referred to a commission of the United States and French naval officers at New Y ork, with a naval officer of Italy as an arb... ...INCOLN. 338 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL FRENCH. [Cipher] W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., July 5, 1863. MAJOR-G...

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...erence for the single state. For that matter, if you turn to George Sand’s French version of As You Like It (and I think I can promise you will like i... ...ken with Jesuits and Plymouth Brethren, mathematicians and poets, dogmatic republicans and dear old gentlemen in bird’s-eye neckcloths; and each under... ...piece of the person’s experience. I re- member an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his Cenacle. It was ob... ...k- 54 Robert Louis Stevenson ing love as they did before the Flood or the French Revo- lution; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the haw- t... ...we regard life as a lane leading to a dead wall – a mere bag’s end, as the French say – or whether we think of it as a vestibule or gymnasium, where w... ...ow right well that a lion would fall foul of us as grimly as he would of a Frenchman or a Moldavian Jew, and we do not carry him before us in the smok...

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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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...ld have produced something better—something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit att... ... by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let ... ...mplexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek ... ...ir immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mugwumps. Bur gess has always found ha... ... the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the... ...ations. She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York—the surprise would follow; the sur...

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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 ...