"Emigre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to know the honors and distinctions which that little emigre, M. de Bourbon, is able to confer on the First Consul of France," said Bonaparte, with a sarcastic smile. "Tell me, madame, what did the Count d'Artois say, and what that statement of yours ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... way to join the Royalists in Vendee. He and Therese were boy-and-girl lovers in old days, and their old passion revives. Armand entreats her to fly with him, which after the usual conflict of emotions she consents to do. But meanwhile Thorel, who has been amiably harbouring the emigre, is arrested and dragged to the scaffold. This brings about a change in Therese's feelings. She sends Armand about his business and throws in her lot with Thorel, defying the mob and presumably sharing her husband's ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild
... see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigre, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,) Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion, By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd, Bluff'd not a bit ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... Frenchman and not a citizen of the United States! He is not even a citizen of the French Republic! He is an emigre. He has no ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston |
