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Old and New London
… Gore House," writes Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, "Prince Louis Napoleon met most of the intellectual society of the time, … felt convinced that he could be no other than Prince Louis Napoleon. Such was the fact. . . . There was a general … one of my companions said to the other, 'What could Louis Napoleon mean by asking us to dine with him at the Tuileries …
Survey of London
… Decorator in Ordinary to his Imperial Majesty, Louis Napoleon', with 'cut-glass lustres, painted panels, blue …
Old and New London
… French war, when we were pushed so hard by the genius of Napoleon, which we had unwisely provoked, Lloyd's opened a …
Finance and trade under Edward III
Old and New London
… his pace and spread the news of the Cossacks fighting for Napoleon's body. At the Marsh Gate, Lambeth, he entered a … scattered billets to the crowd, announcing the death of Napoleon and the fall of Paris. They then paraded through … old war-time, when the funds ran up and down every time Napoleon mounted his horse. Mr. F., afterwards proprietor of …
Old and New London
… champions wore at Cadiz, flags that have been scorched by Napoleon's powder, blades that have shared in struggles with …