The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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Page 60
... campaign of 1812 . From this early epoch of M. Villemain's life , dates also the first dawning of his fame . In 1811 , M. de Fontanes , then Grand - Master of the University , named him Professor of Rhetoric at the Collège Charlemagne ...
... campaign of 1812 . From this early epoch of M. Villemain's life , dates also the first dawning of his fame . In 1811 , M. de Fontanes , then Grand - Master of the University , named him Professor of Rhetoric at the Collège Charlemagne ...
Page 68
... campaign of 1812 , M. de Narbonne is sent for one day suddenly to Saint Cloud to listen to the ever - repeated rhapsodies of the fated Hero , it is M. Villemain who , seated in a corner of the carriage reading Chateaubriand's Itinéraire ...
... campaign of 1812 , M. de Narbonne is sent for one day suddenly to Saint Cloud to listen to the ever - repeated rhapsodies of the fated Hero , it is M. Villemain who , seated in a corner of the carriage reading Chateaubriand's Itinéraire ...
Page 73
... campaign than that which we shall commence three months hence . Moscow is 3,000 kilomètres from Paris , and there will no doubt be some few battles on the road . But , however , we will suppose Moscow taken , Russia cast down , the Czar ...
... campaign than that which we shall commence three months hence . Moscow is 3,000 kilomètres from Paris , and there will no doubt be some few battles on the road . But , however , we will suppose Moscow taken , Russia cast down , the Czar ...
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... campaign , Napoleon rushes on the destiny which lies in wait for him . Nowhere do we find more evident traces of this fatal obstinacy than in a journal kept by Duroc during the campaign , apparently for his own personal satisfaction ...
... campaign , Napoleon rushes on the destiny which lies in wait for him . Nowhere do we find more evident traces of this fatal obstinacy than in a journal kept by Duroc during the campaign , apparently for his own personal satisfaction ...
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... campaign . Scarcely had the Emperor returned to Paris from the first re- treat to which his armies had been compelled , than the news brought him by M. de Narbonne from Germany , whither he had been despatched to study the feelings of ...
... campaign . Scarcely had the Emperor returned to Paris from the first re- treat to which his armies had been compelled , than the news brought him by M. de Narbonne from Germany , whither he had been despatched to study the feelings of ...
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