Filia Dolorosa: Memoirs of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulême, the Last of the Dauphines, Volume 1

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R. Bentley, 1852
 

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Halaman 242 - The first story enclosed an antechamber, an eating-hall, and a library of old books collected by the ancient priors of the Temple, or serving as a depot for the refuse of the libraries of the Comte d'Artois ; the second, third, and fourth stories offered to the eye the same disposition of apartments, the same nakedness of wall, and the same dilapidation of furniture. The...
Halaman 243 - The winds whistled there, the rain fell across the broken panes, the swallow flew in there at pleasure ; no beds, sofas, or hangings were there. One or two couches for the assistant jailers, some broken straw-bottom chairs, and earthen vessels in an abandoned kitchen, formed the whole of the furniture. Two low-arched doors, whose freestone mouldings represented a bundle of pillars, surmounted by broken escutcheons of the Temple, led to the vestibule of these two towers.
Halaman 242 - Choisy-le-Roi, descending, with their villages, their parks, and their meadows, toward the course of the Seine. The small tower stood with its back to the large one. It had also two little towers upon each of its flanks. It was equally square, and divided into four stories. No interior communication existed between these two contiguous edifices ; each had its separate staircase ; an open platform crowned this tower in place of a roof, as on the donjon. The first story...
Halaman 338 - He took extreme care of my brother," says Madame Royale. " For a long time the unhappy child had been shut up in darkness, and he was dying of fright. He was very grateful for the attentions of Gomin, and became much attached to him.
Halaman 332 - On one of these occasions, when the child had fallen half stunned upon his own miserable couch, and lay there groaning and faint with pain, Simon roared out with a laugh, ' Suppose you were king, Capet, what would you do to me ? ' The child thought of his father's dying words, and said,
Halaman 323 - In the chateau of the Tuileries with the king, my brother." " What have you done with your diamonds ? " "I do not know. But all these questions are useless ; you want my death ; I have made to God the sacrifice of my life, and I am ready to die — happy to rejoin my honoured relatives whom I loved so well on earth.
Halaman 241 - The garden was overgrown with vegetation — thick with coarse herbs, and choked by heaps of stones and gravel, the relics of demolished buildings. A high and dull wall, like that of a cloister, made the place still more gloomy. This wall had only one outlet, at the extremity of a long alley on the Vieille Ru du Temple.
Halaman 181 - ... which should be a recognition of the royal dignity, if indeed his speech was not a studied disavowal of it. Louis might reckon, he said, on the firmness of the National Assembly: its members had sworn to die in support of the rights of the people and of the constituted authorities...
Halaman 324 - On the cart she showed the same calmness, encouraging the women who were with her. At the foot of the scaffold they had the cruelty to make her wait and perish last. All the women on getting out of the cart asked permission to kiss her, which she gave, encouraging each of them with her usual kindness. Her strength did not abandon her at the last moment which she bore with a resignation full of religion. Her soul parted from her body to go...
Halaman 242 - No interior communication existed between these two contiguous edifices ; each had its separate stair-case ; an open platform crowned this tower in place of a roof, as on the donjon. The first story inclosed an antechamber, an eating-hall...

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