"Duchesse d'Angouleme" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... name, which had been so great and had now fallen so low. In 1826 the youngest of the boys, who was scarcely more than sixteen, was brought to Paris. The little savage was clothed and presented to the Duchesse d'Angouleme: he appeared three or four times in the salons of the Minister of War, who was related to his family, and who was very anxious to do something for him; but at the end of a week, feeling stifled in these drawing-rooms, and ill at ease in ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt |
