... transparent!”
“This is what they wore in ancient Egypt,” I protest. His conquest
of Egypt put all of France in the thrall of the pharaohs. The soldiers
returned from the Battle of the Pyramids with unimaginable ... Haiti, I was
the only person on my father’s plantation to warn her of the clap. The
aristocratic grands blancs and gens de couleur were all too afraid to speak...
... of the Empress, a dining-room, and a
concert-room; the second, of a bedchamber, the library, the dressing-room, the boudoir, and the bathroom. A
rigid etiquette controlled the entrance to the Empress& apos;s ... manifestations of the fatigue which he experienced. As to the German princes, their
attitude, their words, even the tone of their voice, showed the ascendanc...
... admixture from all climes under the genial skies of the Antilles. In the evening, the family was
gathered together in the light of the moon, which imparted to the nights the brightness of day and streamed
CHAPTER ... confer upon them the right of joining hands
together for all their days.
They loved one another, they had ceased long ago to make a secret of it; they avowed it...
... the ministers, the marshals of the Empire, the high officers of the crown, the civil officers, the
ladies of the court, were to take their places at the right of the throne. The gallery, in the ... table of the Emperor and the Empress was placed beneath a
magnificent canopy, on a platform. The Empress sat there with the Emperor on the right and the Pope...
... as their lord and master, the supreme disposer of
life and death, while they crawl in the dust at his feet.
They had sworn allegiance to the Regent Biron, as they had to the Empress Anna; they ... they threw themselves upon
the earth when they met him, they humbly bared their heads when passing his palace; and when the magnates
of the realm, the princes and counts of Russia,...