Two days later, I was sitting idly smoking at a little table outside the Couronne d'Or inn at Briancon, that curious little town inside the great fortress that commands the pass of Mont Genevre.
Arrived there, you will remain at the Couronne d'Or, and wear this peace of edelweiss in your coat.
Illustration: Roadside Chapel, St. Pierre] The name Couronne is certainly apropos of this dominant headland, under whose flanks are innumerable natural shelters and anchorages.
All the poems that were written on this occasion were collected under the title Couronne poétique du General Foy, and they made a volume in themselves.
A private English steam yacht, the Deerhound, followed in the wake of the Couronne and took a position affording a good view of the battle, and several French pilot boats did likewise.
The French iron clad frigate Couronne accompanied her to the three-mile limit in order to make sure that no fighting should take place in French waters.
No sooner was the limit of jurisdiction reached, than the Couronne put down her helm, and without any delay, steamed back into port, not even lingering outside the breakwater to witness the fight.
I had come through somehow, but I was sick and sore at heart, as I urged Couronne from a trot to a gallop, when I thought of poor Nicholas lying dead by the banks of the Eure.
I had now come to the gardens of the Tuileries, and, putting Couronne at the wall which was just being raised around them, found myself within a quarter-mile of our place of meeting.
I felt my leg at each step I took; but went on at a round pace somehow, and came up to Couronne just as she was stepping out of the water.
He never finished, for de Gomeron saw his chance and passed his sword through the sergeant's throat, and he fell limply from Couronne a dead man.
It would take a few minutes to getCouronne ready, but I followed him down at once, as I had an inquiry to make from Madame Pantin.
The turf was soft and level here, and I let Couronne go at a half-gallop, keeping in the chequered shade of the huge trees, which whispered strange things to each other in the breeze.
Couronne was at the door, Ravaillac at her head, and, mounting, I went at a walking pace towards the Pont au Change, my servant a yard or so behind.
Away in the distance it still seemed as if I could hear the hum of the city behind me, but here all was quiet and still and the iron-shod hoofs of Couronne rang out with a strange clearness into the night.
My horse was going at racing pace; butCouronne kept by his side with a long and effortless stride.
The day she was able for the first time to sit up a while, in an armchair wheeled by the bedside, was a fete day to the four Americans in the Couronne hotel.
As Lynde paced up and down the trottoir in front of the Couronne hotel, he drew out his watch from time to time and glanced expectantly towards the hotel entrance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couronne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
