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Highways and By-Ways Volume 3; Or, Tales of the Road-Side, Picked Up in the French Provinces download

Highways and By-Ways Volume 3; Or, Tales of the Road-Side, Picked Up in the French Provinces download

Highways and By-Ways Volume 3; Or, Tales of the Road-Side, Picked Up in the French Provinces.cThomas Colley Grattan
Highways and By-Ways Volume 3; Or, Tales of the Road-Side, Picked Up in the French Provinces
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Author: Thomas Colley Grattan
Page Count: 58 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236072689
Download Link: Highways and By-Ways Volume 3; Or, Tales of the Road-Side, Picked Up in the French Provinces
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ... seen, at Amiens. Napoleon mortally hated on these occasions the pompous parade of corporation loyalty, and, above all things, the fustian eloquence in which the addresses were written and spoken. To avoid as much as could be escaped from of these solemnities, he often took up'his residence at some house in the suburbs of the town, and declined to occupy the official mansions of the mayors or prefects; and, as had just taken place, he most frequently avoided even entering the town at all, making themunicipal authorities come to him to his country quarters, and cutting as'short as possible the measure of their servile eulogy. The chateau which he had this time chosen for his halting place at Amiens, was the propertyiof one of those emigrants who had refused to return to France, notwithstanding all the encouragement held out in the imperial promises, and against whom a positive decree of banishment was afterwards issued for contempt of it. Napoleon did not of course hold these recusants in great good will; and he thought nothing of the passing inconvenience, or permanent annoyance occasioned by his three hours sojourn, in the present instance, at the uninhabited house of a man who despised his inducements or detested his rule. The officer of his household, on whom depended the providing of proper quarters on the Emperor-'s flying excursions, knew well the particular situation of every habitation likely to suit his purposes, near most of the principal towns, and this, like the others, had been noted down as the one most fit for his reception. It was kept in good order, scantily, but sufliciently furnished, and a few servants retained, at the expense, for many years, of the absent proprietor; and the garden and shrubberies, where his happiest hours ...

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