New Year's Day of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sugared almonds, four o'clock was striking, there was a mob in the Palais-Royal, and the eating-houses were beginning to ll. At this moment a coupe drew up at theperronand a young man stepped out; a man of haughty appearance, and no doubt a foreigner; otherwise he would not have displayed the aristocraticchasseurwho attended him in a plumed hat, nor the coat of arms which the heroes of July still attacked.
New Year's Day of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sugared almonds, four o'clock was striking, there was a mob in the Palais-Royal, and the eating-houses were beginning to ll. At this moment a coupe drew up at theperronand a young man stepped out; a man of haughty appearance, and no doubt a foreigner; otherwise he would not have displayed the aristocraticchasseurwho attended him in a plumed hat, nor the coat of arms which the heroes of July still attacked.
