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When his jailer (named Simon just like Louis XVI's) came in to tell him that some tomatoes which had long been ripening in the yard outside were at last growing red, the old Marshal turned on him. "Bah," he snapped, "they are blushing with shame...
...Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
...island fortress must always be on its guard against provincialism," Connolly prints French poetry to mix with book reviews, essays on novelist-philosophers, letters from Continental capitals (by such contributors as Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece), the autobiography of still sprightly Painter Augustus John (now at Installment XVI). In politics Connolly is a Socialist, but (to the bafflement of the literary left) he thinks that is none of his magazine's business...
...midst of a social revolution quite as drastic as the rebellion of the French against Louis XVI. It is more important than the war, now that we are no longer fighting for our lives...
...Author. Few of Dumas' novels were more fantastic than his life and ancestry. His father, the mulatto son of one of his grandfather's Santo Domingo slaves, enlisted in King Louis XVI's army as a private. During the Revolution he rose from private to commander in 20 months...