"Luxembourg" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... landlord was carried off in the night. Last of all came the turn of Paine. He was arrested in December, by order of Robespierre, "for the interest of America, as well as of France, as a dangerous enemy of liberty and equality." On his way to the Luxembourg, he stopped at Barlow's lodgings and left with him the First Part of the "Age of Reason," finished the day before. The Americans in Paris applied to the Convention for Paine's release, offering themselves as security for his good conduct during his stay in France. They rounded off their petition ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... directed toward him. 0 God! this perpetual fear and excitement will kill me! I have no peace of mind, no rest more! Since the unhappy day when we left our dear little house to live in the Tuileries, since that day there has been an end to all joy! Why did we do it? why did we not remain in our little Luxembourg? why have we been persuaded to live in the palace ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... marechal de Luxembourg, a la tete de 70,000 Francais, guerroyait contre les Anglo-Hollandais commandes par Guillaume d'Orange. Ce dernier, qui s'etait deja illustre en plus de vingt combats, etait un adversaire redoutable. Aussi ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... Newell's address, but opined that it might be extracted from a certain official at the Consulate, if Garnett could give a sufficiently good reason for the request; and here in fact Mrs. Newell's emissary learned that her husband was to be found in an obscure street of the Luxembourg quarter. ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... picture representing a priest's struggle with the devil is in the city gallery of Rouen. The modern picture is Robert Fleury's painting in the Luxembourg Gallery ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
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