"Fontenoy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de Louis XV, ch. xv.), in his account of the battle of Fontenoy, thus mentions him:—'On tait cinquante pas de distance.... Les officiers anglais salurent les Franais en tant leurs chapeaux.... Les officiers des gardes franaises leur rendirent le salut, Mylord ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... Nancy Dampier across the sunlit courtyard to the wide old oak staircase, the escalier d'honneur, as it was still called in the hotel, down which the Marquis de Saint Ange had clattered when starting for Fontenoy. ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... tower of St. Eloi, 16th cent.; the tower Goguin, 12th cent.; and the Porte du Croux, asquare tower of the 12th cent., but rebuilt in 1393, now containing an antiquarian museum. At the entrance into the town by the Paris road is a triumphal arch, erected in 1746 to commemorate the victory of Fontenoy, 12th May 1745, when the French defeated the Anglo-German and Dutch forces under the Duke of Cumberland. Nevers stands on the slope of a hill rising from the Loire in the midst of a flat country abounding with iron, giving employment to important ironworks. In the most elevated part ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... of Fontenoy and Culloden. By G.A. Henty. With 12 full-page Illustrations by Gordon Browne. Crown 8vo, cloth ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty
... support the Elector of Bavaria, who had been chosen Emperor. George II. of England held with Maria Theresa, and gained a victory over the French at Dettingen, in 1744. Louis XV. then joined his army, and the battle of Fontenoy, in 1745, was one of the rare victories of France over England. Another victory followed at Laufeldt, but elsewhere France had had heavy losses, and in 1748, after the death of Charles VII., peace was made ...
— History of France • Charlotte M. Yonge
... really think about it. I then worked at toy-making, and never dreamed that France would ask me for anything else than to make her draught-boards, shuttlecocks, and cups and balls. But I had an old uncle at Vincennes whom I went to see from time to time—a Fontenoy veteran in the same rank of life as myself, but with ability enough to have risen to that of a marshal. Unluckily, in those days there was no way for common people to get on. My uncle, whose services would have got him made a prince under ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet |
