The Count's Snuff-Box; A Romance of Washington and Buzzard's Bay During the War of 1812

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company Subjects: Tobacco in literature United States Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd. Cowper. COUNT fiDOUARD DE CRILLON had been in Washington but a few weeks, and now his name was on af! lips. A stranger to every one in the town, he had alighted from the stage-coach, and at once had presented himself at Kalorama, where the French Minister, Serurier, received him with great consideration, reading his letters of introduction from the Duke d'Istrie, De Bassano, and others prominent at the Court of Bonaparte, with great interest and satisfaction. Soon James Monroe paid him marked attention, and the President invited him to the Mansion. At this time Washington was thinking of little but " Orders in Council" and Napoleon's decrees, yet there were many social entertainments, notwithstanding that members of Congress, diplomats, and the administration were absorbed in affairs of state and foreign relations. At all these gatherings De Crillon was the centre of interest. Frenchmen of culture are always attractive, and at the period of which we are writing they were even more so to Americans than they are to-day. Recollections of the Revolution and of Lafayette and Rochambeau were still fresh, and assistance given in time of need was still remembered by the...