"Roi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these successive favors, due, as he supposed, to the monarch's remembrance, he was no longer satisfied with taking his family, as he had piously done every Sunday, to cry "Vive le Roi" in the hall of the Tuileries when the royal family passed through on their way to chapel; he craved the favor of a private audience. The audience, at once granted, was in no sense private. The royal drawing-room was full of old adherents, ...
— The Ball at Sceaux • Honore de Balzac
... as he went, I urging him on, our two heads close together. Every now and then he would look up to see if the plague outside was done, and, finding it still went on, would plunge again into the seclusion of our tete-a-tete; till the chanson itself—"Si le roi m'avoit donne—Paris, sa grand' ville"—had been said, ...
— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... coffee ordinance was known as the "Declaration du Roi concernant la vente du cafe brule", and was published ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... Marie Butler, soeur du duc d'Ormond, viceroi d'Irlande, et grand maitre de la maison du roi Charles. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various
... next, act, evidently thinking that poor Ophelia has been neglected by her creator, M. de Chatelain makes Polonius speak of her to the king and queen as "un vrai morceau de roi"—a gentle method of suggesting that she is worthy of the distinguished honor of a royal alliance. But the fair Ophelia is destined to suffer nearly as unkind treatment from the hands of her French usher as she endures from her princely lover. We give entire the translation ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various
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