Memoirs, Volume 3 |
Common terms and phrases
admirable Admiral Linois afterwards agreeable aide-de-camp ambassador amongst amusing answer arms army beautiful Bishop of Metz brother Brune cabinet Cardinal character charming Clairon Cobentzel Comédie Française command Consul Count countenance court d'Offreville dear death dinner dress Duchess Dugazon Duke Emperor England English eyes fête France French gave give glory hand happy head heart honour husband Italy Junot King knew Lacépède lady Lannes laughing length looked Lord Whitworth Louis Madame Bonaparte Madame Junot Madame Leclerc Madame Murat Madame Recamier Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Mars Malmaison manner ment mind morning mother Napoleon never opinion Paris party peace perfect person pleasure poor possessed present pretty Prince Princess Rapp replied republic Russian Sartines scene singular smile speak talent Talma theatre Theophilanthropists thing thousand tion took treaty treaty of Amiens treaty of Luneville Tuileries voice whole wife woman words young
Popular passages
Page 168 - Called by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the Republic, I have thought proper, in commencing the discharge of its duties, to communicate the event directly to your Majesty.
Page 234 - that I shall look pretty, PRETTIER THAN USUAL, in a Creole turban, a short waist, and a petticoat of striped muslin? " Description can give but a faint idea of Madame Leclerc at the moment when her delight at being presented with a new hint for the toilet chased away the remembrance that she was on the eve of departure for a country where she expected to be devoured. She rang for her waiting maid.
Page 35 - ... manner. I have known the people of the Faubourgs at this period, when to be peaceful they asked only to be employed, and work was furnished to them in abundance. More virtues or more noble sentiments will nowhere be found than among the working classes of Paris. Never did they rise into tumult through the whole course of the Revolution except when driven into violence by misery and hunger. Hunger! the most imperious of wants! that which blinds the eye and deafens the ear to all other considerations,...
Page 159 - He called and gave his orders. " Send a footman immediately to Madame Junot's to learn whether she is yet put to bed ; and if not, let the family be informed that General Junot is here." He again took my husband's arm, and continued to converse with him with such affecting kindness that Junot could not repress his tears. He was attached to his general, to that vision of glory which commanded admiration ; but in such moments as the present Napoleon's conduct could not fail to subject to him the whole...
Page 108 - Brunet was made to atone by twenty-four hours' imprisonment for his unseasonable joke on the 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...
Page 160 - Junot had been three-quarters of an hour with the First Consul, whose arm rested on his, obliging him to remain a prisoner when he would rather have been at large and have had the power to come and learn the result of all his uneasiness. The footman could not yet be returned when Junot, emboldened by the First Consul's goodness, begged to be allowed to inquire for him. " I should have been told," answered the First Consul, "if he was returned.
Page 232 - General Leclerc would willingly have dispensed with this addition to his baggage, for it was a positive calamity, after the first quarter of an hour's interview had exhausted the pleasure of surveying her really beautiful person, to have the burden of amusing, occupying, and taking care of Madame Leclcro.
Page 153 - I felt prouder of than I should have done six months earlier. My thoughts now took quite a different direction ; I not only did not fear, but I desired the decisive moment ; and when my friends met in the drawing-room they found me as gay and as happy as any young wife or young girl could be. Madame Hamelin formed one of our party. She was then young, gay, lively, and a most ready assistant in promoting that easy confidence which forms the great charm of intimate association. She had an original...
Page 154 - ... that my memory may well be excused its want of accuracy on this point. But whether the General had received his crown from me or whether he had made me his queen he addressed me in a compliment so absurd, that it provoked a violent fit of laughter with which the room resounded and which was echoed with equal noise by seventeen or eighteen persons who surrounded the supper table.
Page 402 - ... in the end guessed the cause, which was the singular style of his costume, always absolutely laughable, when he assumed the dress of a private citizen. From what cause I can scarcely tell, but all the illusion of glory which surrounded him could not make his appearance imposing when not attired in military uniform.