The ushers had charge of the apartment of honor; the valets de chambre of the other.
Hardly had he fallen asleep when he would call his valet de chambre who slept in the same tent: "Constant!
The faithful valet de chambre goes on in an attempt to defend his master: "Others perhaps would have succumbed oftener.
Testimony of the valet-de-chambre Lorimier de Chamilly, with whom Mathon was imprisoned in the prison of La Force.
On one of the backs of these letters De la Chambre had written, "If I die before his majesty, he will incur great risk of making many an unfortunate choice!
Of "Bonaventure de Periers, Valet de Chambre de la Royne de Navarre," there are three little volumes of tales in prose, in the quaint or the coarse pleasantry of that day.
And the ussher of chambre ought to testyfye if this is necessaryly dispended or not.
The Ordinances are considerate as to sex, and provide for “weomen lavendryes” for a Queen, and further that “these officers oughte to bee sworne to keepe the chambre counsaylle.
A young girl of clear intellect and good education, but without rank, friends, or fortune, she was forced to accept the humiliating position of femme de chambre with the Duchesse du Maine, who had been attracted by her talents.
But this valet-de-chambre of La Rochefoucauld, who amassed a fortune and became a man of some note, was jealous of her influence over his former master, and his opinions should be taken with reservation.
The daughter of a valet de chambre of the Duchess of Burgundy, who gave her a handsome dowry, Marie Therese Rodet became, at fourteen, the wife of a lieutenant-colonel of the National Guard and a rich manufacturer of glass.
She made a present to her first femme de chambre of five large farms, upon which the whole Court subsisted.
He bought over two of her French femmes de chambre to give her poison in raw oysters; and they afterwards withheld from her the antidote which had been entrusted to their care.
I have seen Beauvais, that femme de chambreof the Queen-mother, a one-eyed creature, who is said to have first taught the King the art of intriguing.
She had a valet de chambre named Launois, whom I have since seen in the service of Monsieur; he had orders to stand sentinel on the staircase, to give notice in case Monsieur should approach.
The populace and the femmes de chambre are fond of her; but she is not liked elsewhere.
From this circumstance has arisen that custom which gives femmes de chambre so much authority in our apartments.
She lives much in the femme-de-chambre style; and, indeed, loves this society better than that of persons of birth.
When he wished to become a member of the Parliament he could not give the names either of his father or mother; he had been baptized in the name of Cauche, the Regent's valet de chambre and purveyor.
He had, therefore, cause to bless the day when his valet-de-chambre became the fiance of Mlle.
I have a letter to Monsieur le valet dechambre of the Duke," he said humbly.
Controleur-General if his valet-de-chambre was not a personal friend of Monsieur Durand.
But the first thing necessary was to see the place, and we agreed upon a day when the marechal was to send his valet de chambre with a carriage to take me to it.
The surgeon, valet de chambre of the marechal, maintained it was not the gout, and dressed the suffering part with beaume tranquille.
I made a good mattress with my waistcoats and shirts; my napkins I converted, by sewing them together, into sheets; my robe de chambre into a counterpane; and my cloak into a pillow.
When all on a sudden a valet-de-chambre belonging to the old marchioness, arrived in a great fright.
Chambre and others of the leaders were captured and hanged at York; but Egremont, thanks to the fleetness of his horse, escaped to Flanders, and was protected by the Yorkist Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy.
She perched upon the French coast at Boulogne, that refuge of so much exiled English innocence, and there lived in rather a genteel, widowed manner, with a femme de chambre and a couple of rooms, at an hotel.
It was equally easy, I found, to let it hang flat against the side wall of that rancid little chambre particuliere which stood next to the room where most of those star-chamber conspiracies seemed to take place.
Some days before, Napoleon had explained to him the manner in which he desired his body should be laid out in state, in an apartment lighted by torches, or what Catholics call une chambre ardente.
And Monsieur is likely to be with us to-morrow, mon ami; for my femme-de-chambre tells me that he is going to Mont Dor.
The femme-de-chambre was carrying up the last package: the postilion had got out of his boots, and had placed them to lean against the wall.
In observing the history of the famous Chambre Bleue, it cannot but strike an English critic how far more articulate French opinion was than English in the seventeenth century.
The new era of style found its cradle in the Chambre Bleue.
The Duc de Broglie was probably right when he conjectured that Malherbe was practically the first, and as long as he lived the foremost, of the literary clan which met in the Chambre Bleue.
Among the whiche thre ther were That most service unto him bere, As thei which in his chambre lyhen And al his conseil herde and syhen.
Bot after this unkinde fare Out of the chambre goth the king, And sche lay stille, and of this thing, Withinne hirself such sorghe made, Ther was no wiht that mihte hir glade, For feere of thilke horrible vice.
Bot tak this lore into thi wit, That alle thing hath time and stede, The cherche serveth for the bede, The chambre is of an other speche.
In a Cronique it telleth thus: The king of Rome Lucius Withinne his chambre upon a nyht The Steward of his hous, a knyht, Forth with his Chamberlein also, To conseil hadde bothe tuo, 3950 And stoden be the Chiminee Togedre spekende alle thre.
The king his chamberlein let calle, 800 And bad that he be alle weie A chambrefor this man pourveie, Which nyh his oghne chambre be.
The above ceremony is thus mentioned by Chaucer in his description of the marriage of January and May: "The bride is brought a-bed as stil as ston; And whan the bed was with the preest yblessed, Out of the chambre hath every wight him dressed.
Illustration: The upper end of the Gret Chambre at Fordynghay Cast.
There is another chambre for the Lords to dyne in, the lengthe is xiiij.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chambre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
