. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 337 lat to his y closely, end him a He ex- 1 only one n. It was twenty-six the door of ome words and a half, ame words, us saluer;" } votre tr^s situation of eleven, re- lundred per- mt subjects. can he keep r business is Du shall have arons Vacher d he wished King, all his men in white liveries, came driving at full speed, and followed by other grandees. The King and these gentry descended from their carriages and mounted fine horses, which were in readiness for them; they were immediately su
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 337 lat to his y closely, end him a He ex- 1 only one n. It was twenty-six the door of ome words and a half, ame words, us saluer;" } votre tr^s situation of eleven, re- lundred per- mt subjects. can he keep r business is Du shall have arons Vacher d he wished King, all his men in white liveries, came driving at full speed, and followed by other grandees. The King and these gentry descended from their carriages and mounted fine horses, which were in readiness for them; they were immediately surrounded by a brilliant staff, and the re- view began, the Duchesses d'Orleans and de Berry hav- ing now arrived in open carriages; from my perch I saw all. The Swiss troops began, and the manoeuvres were finely gone through; three times I was within twenty- five yards of the King and his staff, and, as a Kentuckian would say, "could have closed his eye with a rifle ; He is a man of small stature, pale, not at all handsome, and rode so bent over his horse that his appearance was neither kingly nor prepossessing. He wore a three-cor- nered hat, trimmed with white feathers, and had a broad blue sash from the left shoulder under his right arm. The Due d'Orl^ans looked uncommonly well in a hussar uniform, and is a fine rider; he sat his horse like a Turk. The staff was too gaudy; I like not so much gold and silver. None of the ladies were connections of Venus, except most distantly; few Frenchwomen are handsome. The review over, the King and his train rode off. I saw a lady in a carriage point at me on the wall; she doubt- less took me for a large black Crow. The music was un- commonly fine, especially that by the band belonging to the Cuirassiers, which was largely composed of trumpets of various kinds, and aroused my warlike feelings. The Kihj, and staff being now posted at some little distance, a new movement began, the cannon roared, the horses gal- loped madly
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