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none of his subjects should be deprived of their titles and dignities;
and the new dukes, princes, marshals, counts, and barons, could therefore appear at court, but they played but a sad and humiliating _role_, and they were made to feel that they were only tolerated, and not welcome. The gentlemen who, before the revolution, had been entitled to seats in the royal equipages, still retained this privilege, but the doors of these equipages were never opened to the gentlemen of the new Napoleonic nobility. "The ladies of the old era still retained their _tabouret,_ as well as their grand and little _entree_ to the Tuileries and the Louvre, and it would have been considered very arrogant if the duchesses of the new era had made claim to similar honors." It was the Duchess d'Angouleme who took the lead and set the Faubourg St. Germain an example of intolerance and arrogant pretensions in ignoring the empire. She was the most unrelenting enemy of the new era, born of the revolution, and of its representatives; it is true, however, that she, who was the daughter of the beheaded royal pair, and who had herself so long languished in the Temple, had been familiar with the horrors of the revolution in their saddest and most painful features. She now determined, as she could no longer punis |
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