ONE:He was the only one of the Imperial family Lisette was at all afraid of, for the Empress was unceasingly good to her, and the princes and princesses were all very young.Severe as was her loss to Pauline a more terrible calamity happened to her in 1824, in the death of her only son Attale, who was killed by an accident when out shooting, leaving a young wife and children to her care.
TWO:A gentleman of the court came home late one night, and could not get into his wife¡¯s room, because the maid, who slept in an ante-room, could or would not be awakened. As he was going very early in the morning to hunt, he [405] changed his clothes in a hurry without going to bed, and on arriving at the place of meeting was greeted by his friends with a shout of laughter, and inquiries if he wished to exchange his hunting dress for the costume of the Queen¡¯s pages; as he had put on in haste and half-darkness the haut-de-chausse of one of them, which certainly had no business to be in his room.
ONE:¡°THE first family in France after the royal family, is evidently that of Lorraine; the second without dispute that of Rohan, and the third La Tour d¡¯Auvergne, or Bouillon-Turenne, after that La Tr¨¦moille,¡± [66] and then come a whole string of illustrious names, Mailly-de-Nesle, Cr¨¦quy, Harcourt, Clermont-Tonnerre, Saint Jean, Thoury; Sabran, La Rochefoucauld, Montmorency, Narbonne-Pelet, B¨¦thune, Beauvoir, Beauffremont, Villeneuve (premier Marquis de France), and many others.He was one of the earliest to emigrate, and at Coblentz he met his old love, Mme. de Harvelay, now a rich widow and willing to marry him. He spent her fortune, and later on tried to get employment under Napoleon, who would have nothing to do with him, and he died in comparative obscurity.
TWO:¡°Robespierre is dead!¡±¡ª Notre Dame de Thermidor¡ªEnd of the Terror¡ªThe prisons open¡ªDecline of Tallien¡¯s power¡ªBarras¡ªNapoleon¡ª¡°Notre Dame de Septembre!¡±¡ªM. Ouvrard¡ªSeparates from Tallien¡ªHe goes to Egypt¡ªConsul in Spain¡ªDies in Paris¡ªT¨¦r¨¨zia stays in Paris¡ªIngratitude of some she had saved¡ªMarries the Prince de Chimay¡ªConclusion.
ONE:Many cases there were of romantic devotion and loyalty, by which the property of a family had been partly saved for the owners by their faithful servants. Such was the story of the Marquis de ¡ª¡ª, whose castle was burnt, and who with his wife perished in the flames. Their two boys managed to escape, but not together. One took refuge in England; the other in Germany, neither of them knowing of the existence of the other.
TWO:The little party left Lowemberg at five o¡¯clock one morning before there was much light, except the reflections from the snow upon the mountains; spent a few days at Berne, and went on to Schaffhausen, where M. de Montagu met them, and took his wife to Constance to say goodbye to the La Salle. She stayed four days, and then rejoined her aunt, and went on to Ulm and Nuremberg, where her husband had to leave her, and return to Constance. The rest proceeded to Erfurt, spent a month there among many old friends who had taken refuge in that quiet, ancient town. Finally they crossed the Elbe and arrived at Altona, where in Danish territory they hoped to be able to live in peace and security.
