"Genet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chose n'a pas fait une goutte de sang; C'est mieux. Mais, tout a coup, la cloche au loin eclate; Les monts gris sont bordes d'un long fil ecarlate; Et voici que, partant des branches de genet, Le peuple vient chercher sa dame; l'aube nait. Les hameaux sont en branle, on accourt; et, vermeille, Mahaud, en meme temps que l'aurore, s'eveille; Elle pense rever et croit que le brouillard A pris ces jeunes gens pour en faire un ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... lay one rather,' returned lord Herbert. 'But first I would discover this same perilous fault in the armour of my house. Is thy genet still ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald
... his last important service, his subsequent expeditions proving failures. His later years were spent in poverty and seclusion, and his social habits became none of the best. In 1793 he imprudently accepted a commission as major-general from Genet, the French diplomatic agent, and essayed to raise a French revolutionary legion in the West to overcome the Spanish settlements on the Mississippi; upon Genet's recall, Clark's commission was canceled. Later, he sought to ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers
... 1789 France had been in a state of revolution, and at last (in 1792) the people established the French Republic, cut off the heads of the King and Queen (in 1793), and declared war on England and sent a minister, Genet, to the United States. At that time we had no treaty with Great Britain except the treaty of peace. With France, however, we had two treaties,—one of alliance, and one of amity and commerce. The treaty of alliance bound us to guarantee to France "the ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster |
