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encaux still enjoyed a wide renown to which its fifty years of e

l, close to the narrow street leading to the Rue Vivienne, and it had been the rendezvous

cession of private rooms, comfortably furnished, where, screened behind thick curtains, dined somewhat "irregular" patrons: lovers who were in either the dawn, the zen

also, young fellows about town, of different social rank, but brought together by a pursuit of amusement in common, met here on neutral ground, where, after a certain hour, the supper-table was turned into a gaming-t

had been laid for twenty persons, who were to join in a banquet in honor of the winner of the great military steeplechase at La Marche, which had take

raining of horses, was at eighteen as bold and dashing a rider as he was accomplished in other physical exercises; and although, three years later, at his debut at St. Cyr, he expressed no preference for entering the cavalry service, for which his early tr

e recipient accepted of his free will. He began his military experience in Spain, returned safe and well from the retreat from Russia, and fought valiantly at Bautzen and at Dresden. The Restoration-by which time he had become chief of his battalion-could not fail to advance his career; and the line was about to

son Henri, then a pupil in a military school, who found himself, on reaching his majority, in possession of

oung Marquis, already the head of his house and a military leader, asked and obtained

dent in the pursuit of pleasure, he was able, thanks to his robust healt

. At the end of eighteen months, play, and an expensive liaison with an actress, had absorbed half his fortune, and his paternal inheritance had been mortgaged as well. The actress was a favorite in cert

h at the race-track, a bettor on the opposite side paid one of his wa