Their Majesties as I Knew Them

Their Majesties as I Knew Them

Their Majesties as I Knew Them - Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of EuropeM. XAVIER...
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Their Majesties as I Knew Them

Their Majesties as I Knew Them

$18.17 $9.08

Their Majesties as I Knew Them

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Author: Paoli, Xavier,1835-
Format: eBook
Language: English

Their Majesties as I Knew Them - Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe

M. XAVIER PAOLI THE "CHAMBERLAIN" OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE FRIEND OF SOVEREIGNS It was in 1903, and the King of England was making his first official journey in France since succeeding Queen Victoria on the throne of Great Britain. In the court of the British Embassy in Paris, where the sovereign had taken up his residence, a group of journalists, pencil and notebook in hand, was crowding importunate, full of questions, around a vivacious little gentleman, very precisely dressed in black, wearing the red rosette of the Legion of Honour in the buttonhole of his silk-faced frock coat. An impressive silk hat, slightly tipped, sheltered a head of abundant wavy white hair, strikingly in contrast with the man's still youthful appearance; at the utmost he seemed to be hardly fifty years old. His aristocratic bearing might have been that of a diplomat of the Empire or a Tuscan aristocrat. The sensitive features of his finely oval facethe[Pg vi] straight, delicately formed nose, the piercing eyes, now bright with shrewd humour, now soft with gentle sympathyall spoke the judicial mind, the penetrating observation, which could scrutinise the most secret thoughts, recognise the slightest shades of feeling. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45786
Author: Paoli, Xavier
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921

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