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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kosciuszko, Tadeusz (Thaddeus) 1746- (search)
he sadly prophetic words, afterwards fulfilled, Finis Polonice! He was made captive, and was imprisoned at St. Petersburg until the accession of the Emperor Paul, who set him at liberty, and offered Kosciuszko his own sword. It was refused, the Polish patriot saying, I have no need of a sword, since I have no country to defend. In 1797 he visited the United States, where he was warmly welcoined, and received, in addition to a pension, a grant of land by Congress. He resided near Fontainebleau, in France; and when Bonaparte became Emperor, in 1806, he tried to enlist Kosciuszko in his schemes in relation to Poland. Kosciuszko refused to lend his services, except on condition of a guarantee of Polish freedom. He went to live in Solothurn. Switzerland, in 1816, where he was killed by a fall from his horse over a precipice, Oct. 15, 1817. The remains of this true nobleman of Poland lie beside those of Sobieski and Poniatowski in the cathedral church at Cracow. An elegant monume
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
land had been made also sent out colonists. Law, having 12 square miles of land in Arkansas, undertook to settle the domain with 1,500 Germans. The Mississippi Company resigned Louisiana to the crown in 1732. On Oct. 21, 1764, the King of France gave orders to his director-general and commandant for Louisiana to deliver up to the King of Spain all the French possessions in North America not already ceded to Great Britain. These orders were given in consequence of an act passed at Fontainebleau on Nov. 3, 1762, by which the French King ceded to the King of Spain, and to his successors, the whole country known as Louisiana, together with New Orleans, and the island on which the said city is situated, and of another act passed at the Escurial on Nov. 13, in the same year, by which his Catholic Majesty accepted that cession. When Bonaparte became actual ruler of France as First Consul he felt an ardent desire to re-establish the colonial empire of his country, and with that vie
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
which consist of one piece. Its length is 360 feet, and width 30 feet. Its construction, begun in 1854, was completed within 90 days, the work being pushed forward both night and day. M. Coignet's beton agglomere was used in the erection of the aqueduct of La Vanne, which now carries pure water from the river of La Vanne in the department of the Aube and of the Yonne to the city of Paris The distance from Paris to La Vanne is over 135 miles. The section which traverses the forest of Fontainebleau comprises three miles of arches, some of them as much as 50 feet in hight, and 11 miles of tunnels, nearly all constructed of the material excavated on the spot. The monolithic test-arch at St. Denis, Paris, has a span of 196 feet, and an elevation of 19 feet. See Fig. 666. Coignet's beton is compounded of sand 5, lime 1, and say 25 of hydraulic cement, mixed with an unusually small quantity of water, considerable mechanical exertion, followed by heavy ramming when the concrete is pl
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
axons had wall-hangings of silk, embroidered with needlework or plain Tapestry was common in England to the time of Elizabeth. Tapestry was made in France at a very early date. The oldest and most celebrated specimen in existence is the Bayeux tapestry, containing embroideries representing the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, and supposed to have been worked under the supervision of his queen, Matilda. Tapestry was first made by the loom in Flanders. The manufactory at Fontainebleau was established by Francis I. in the sixteenth century; that at Gobelin's was enlarged under Louis XIV. The French ascribe the invention to the Saracens, and formerly called the workmen who were employed in its manufacture sarazins. The manufacture was introduced into England by Sheldon, in the reign of Henry VIII. It was encouraged by his successors. Hampton Court Palace yet displays their tapestry on its walls. These hangings were a very ornamental accession to the bare wal
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Eugenie, Empress of the French. (search)
he hope that war should be no more,--that henceforth France and England should live in peace, in cooperation, in friendship. This visit of the emperor and empress to the court of England's queen is said to have been the first instance in the world in which a reigning French monarch set foot upon the soil of his hereditary foes. Not long after this Queen Victoria and Prince Albert returned the compliment, and England's queen became the guest of Eugenie at the Tuileries, St. Cloud, and Fontainebleau. Victoria was received by the Parisian population, in the Champs Elysee and along the Boulevards, with the same enthusiasm, with the same tumultuous and joyful acclaim with which Eugenie had been received in the streets of London. There is no city in the world so well adapted to festal occasions as Paris. All the resources of that brilliant capital were called into requisition to invest the scene with splendor. The pageant summoned multitudes to Paris from all the courts of Europe.
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Rosa Bonheur. (search)
of the value of the bill. The same evening she returned to him his bill accompanied by an exquisite sketch estimated to be worth at least a thousand francs. We would close this brief account of her life, by quoting from a graphic description, recently written by a Paris newspaper correspondent, of Rosa Bonheur and her country home:-- Rosa Bonheur's workshop is far away from the breweries of Mont Breda, or the chestnuts of the Luxembourg. You must take the Lyons line; get out at Fontainebleau, and ask the first individual you meet the road to Chateau By. After an hour's walk, in a thick wood, you perceive at an opening of the Thourmery woods an airy-looking building, in which the architect has combined iron, brick, and wood with rare artistic taste. From the cellar to the roof everything is graceful and coquettish in this miniature castle. Its irregularity is its greatest charm, and your eyes could feast all day on the turrets hung with ivy and the balconies entwined with h
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
s and Avignon. In 1839, when en route for Italy. June 10. Early this morning by train to Dijon, where I stopped to visit this old town, particularly to see its churches, and the tombs of the dukes of Burgundy; in the evening went on to Fontainebleau; was detained some hours on the road by an accident to the engine. June 11. Early this morning drove in the fanous forest of Fontainebleau; then went through the palace; then to Paris, reaching my old quarters, Rue de la Paix, at five o'clFontainebleau; then went through the palace; then to Paris, reaching my old quarters, Rue de la Paix, at five o'clock; in the evening went to Ambigu Comique to see Le Naufrage de la Meduse. June 16. Left Paris in train for Boulogne; while train stopped at Amiens for refreshments ran to see the famous cathedral; crossing from Boulogne to Folkestone was quite sea-sick; met aboard Miss Hosmer the sculptor, Gibson, Macdonald, and other artists from Rome; reached London between nine and ten o'clock in the evening. June 17. Looked about for permanent lodgings; took rooms at No. 1 Regent Street [Maurigy's];
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, My out-door study (search)
marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray. Our cowslip is the English marsh-marigold. History is a grander poetry, and it is often urged that the features of Nature in America must seem tame because they have no legendary wreaths to decorate them. It is perhaps hard for those of us who are untravelled to appreciate how densely even the rural parts of Europe are overgrown with this ivy of associations. Thus, it is fascinating to hear that the great French forests of Fontainebleau and St. Germain are full of historic trees,—the oak of Charlemagne, the oak of Clovis, of Queen Blanche, of Henri Quatre, of Sully,—the alley of Richelieu,—the rendezvous of St. Herem,—the star of Lamballe and of the Princesses, a star being a point where several paths or roads converge. It is said that every topographical work upon these forests has turned out to be a history of the French monarchy. Yet surely we lose nearly as much as we gain by this subordination of imperishable be
The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of and, actor. (search)
of Elizabeth Patterson. Of all the offences with which the first Napoleon has been charged, his conduct with regard to this marriage was the most unjustifiable. He first endeavored to obtain a divorce from the Pope; but that Potentate, although so absolutely within his power that he had compelled him to come to Paris in order to crown him, as one of his predecessors had crowned Charlemagne--although a few years after he arrested him in the very Vatican and carried him a prisoner to Fontainebleau — could not be in induced, either by blandishments or threats, to obey this mandate; for it was nothing else. The marriage, he said, was valid, in the eyes of God and man. Nothing had occurred since its date to impair its binding force. As the head of the Church, as a Prince, as a Christian, as a man, he could not consent to perpetrate an act of such gross injustice. Nor did he ever do it. Foiled in this quarter, an attempt was next made to show that Jerome was a minor, and could not,
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Revolution of 1861. (search)
ubdued world paid tribute to the conquerors of Western Europe, that ancient and hardy and renowned race of warriors regarded with a superstitious veneration their omnipotent eagles, and ascribed the universal spread and triumph of their arras to the genius of invincibility which they believed endowed them. Nor could the greatest captain that ever reigned over the hearts on swayed the affections of men, or ruled the fate of kings and empires, refrain from weeping tears of sorrow when, at Fontainebleau, he fondly bid adieu to the eagles of the first French Empire. Not less dear to you will this banner be — whether in peace or war, waving over the battle field or floating defiantly in the face of your foes. Around it fond memories cluster; beneath its bright folds brave hearts will gather — your rallying point and refuge when pressed by numbers or danger — the first and last sign by which you are to conquer.--On one side you behold the Palmetto, the emblem of our State nationality, an<
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