Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins

Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins

The palace of the lyse-Bourbon,the old htel of the Marquise de Pompadour,situated in the middle of the Faubourg St. Honor, was, previous to the last revolution, furnished, as every one knows, for the occupancy of foreign royal highnesses,Roman Catholic, Protestant, or Mussulman, from the princes of the German confederation to Ibrahim Pacha. About the end of the month of July, in a year long past, at eleven o'clock in the morning, several young secretaries and gentlemen belonging to the retinue of his Royal Highness, the Archduke Leopold Maximilian, who had occupied the lyse for six weeks, met in one of the official parlours of the palace. Then one of the doors opened; a young man not more than twenty years old at most, a guest of the house, crossed the parlour, and entered an adjoining chamber, after having saluted, with mingled kindness and embarrassment, the speakers, who rose upon seeing him, thus testifying a deference which seemed unwarranted by his age and position. "Poor Count Frantz, always so timid! A young girl of fifteen, just out of the convent, would have more assurance! To look at him, who would believe him capable of such rare bravery, and that, too, for three years in the Caucasus war? And that he came so valiantly and brilliantly out of that duel forced on him in Vienna? I, gentlemen, picture to myself Count Frantz modestly dropping his eyes as he gave the Circassians a thrust of his sword." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 34305
Author: Sue, Eugène
Release Date: Nov 13, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Marcel, Adrian