Memoirs of M De Blowitz

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III A Champagne Conspiracy On the 31st of July, 1872, Count de K6ratry, who was then Prefect of the Department of Bouches-du-Rhone, came to Versailles. His object was to induce M. Thiers to bring to the notice of the National Assembly the serious contention which existed between himself and the Mayor of Marseilles. M. Thiers received him most kindly, listened to what he had to say, and, by way of reply, invited him to luncheon. At table he was most attentive to his guest, paying him all the honours due to his position as head official of one of the largest Prefectures of France. He offered him the seat to the right of Madame Thiers, facing himself. This strict observance of etiquette was, at the same time, a clever piece of strategy, for M. Thiers had given M. de Keiatry the only place at table fro