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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
believe, for the presence of the king. B, the king's seat. C, the benches occupied by the court ordinarily. D, the seat of the President. E, the seat of the Procureur-General, at the left of whom was Brougham. F, greffier. G, aisle between the part for the judges and the rest of the court. H, the advocate who speaks (except the Procureur-General, who by office has a seat within). Over the king's chair in this court-room is an excellent portrait of Louis Philippe. April 8. Had a treat to-day of an opposite kind from that of yesterday, —heard M. Coquerel Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel, 1795-1868. This French Protestant divine, born in Paris, preached twelve years in Holland, and returned to Paris in 1830. He served, in 1848 and 1849, as a moderate Republican, in the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies. He withdrew from politics upon the coup daetat of Louis Napoleon, and thereafter devoted himself exclusively to his profession. preach, and thou