"Reims" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... defeated the republican generals, captured Saumur, and threatened Nantes. Between Basle and the sea the allies were 280,000 strong; an advance on Paris in two directions, from the Belgian border by Soissons and from Mainz by Reims, would almost certainly have ended the war. After the capture of Caesar's camp the way to Paris lay open to Coburg; there was no French force strong enough to arrest the march of ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... that the Generalissimo had left for Chalons that morning, and at Chalons opinions were divided as to whether he would be found at Reims, or Bar-le-Duc, which were in ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry
... is not lost in the eleventh century. Paris becomes its most ardent center, with Reims, Orleans, and Fleury also of note. The Codex Parisinus belongs to this period. German activity, too, is at its height, especially in the education of boys for the church. Italy affords one catalogue mention, of a Horace copied under Desiderius. ...
— Horace and His Influence • Grant Showerman
... the vicar, "but less important by antiquity and fame than the diocese of Reims, of which ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France
... une main cette vieille compagne, Ferme, de l'autre main, son flanc noir et terni. Le cachet porte encor le blason de Champagne, De la mousse de Reims son col vert est jauni. D'un regard, le marin en soi-mme rappelle Quel jour il assembla l'quipage autour d'elle, Pour porter un grand ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... fact. The period of the Frankish, the Saxon, and the early Salian emperors had been a period of what German writers call the Landeskirche. The power of the Bishop of Rome had not yet been fully established; and the great churches of Reims and Mainz and Milan were practically independent centres. Independent of the papacy, they were not independent of the lay rulers within whose dominions they lay. On the contrary, their members were deeply engaged ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various
... the 10th of April, Lodovico was taken to the citadel of Novara, where he remained for a week. His faithful friends, the good friars of S. Maria delle Grazie, supplied their illustrious patron with a set of silk and gold and silver brocade vests, hats and shoes to match, scarlet hose, and fine Reims linen shirts. All Lodovico himself asked for was a copy of Dante's "Divina Commedia," that he might study it during his captivity. On the 17th he was conducted by La Tremouille, accompanied by four servants and two pages, to Susa, where ...
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright
... a l'occasion de la dedicace de la nouvelle eglise qu' Herimar, abbe de ce monastere, avoit fait batir, seconde par les liberalites des citoyens, etc." ("Hist. de Reims", p. 226.) But, according to our Chronicle, the pope took occasion from this synod to make some general regulations which concerned ...
— The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle • Unknown
... censorship, and the demoralization of the postal service since the war have been favorite targets recently. There has been much complaint of the difficulty of getting news from men at the front. M. Viviani, the premier, in an address at Reims, ventured to say that it was his duty to "organize, administer, and intensify the national defense." On this innocent phrase the eye of M. Clemenceau fell the other day, and he now flings off a characteristic three-and-a-half-column ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl |
