[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER II 2/14
We hear that the Duke of Jenkins accompanies the descendant of Caroline of Naples.
An ENGLISH DUKE, entendez-vous! An English Duke, great heaven! and the Princes of England still dancing in our royal halls! Where, where will the perfidy of Albion end ?" "The King reviewed the third and fourth battalions of Police.
The usual heart-rending cheers accompanied the monarch, who looked younger than ever we saw him--ay, as young as when he faced the Austrian cannon at Valmy and scattered their squadrons at Gemappes. "Rations of liquor, and crosses of the Legion of Honor, were distributed to all the men. "The English Princes quitted the Tuileries in twenty-three coaches-and-four.
They were not rewarded with crosses of the Legion of Honor.
This is significant." "The Dukes of Joinville and Nemours left the palace for the departments of the Loire and Upper Rhine, where they will take the command of the troops.
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