I walked back with the Doyen in heavy rain at 10, and entered my lodgings with L'Abbé Daniel, 73, Grande Rue.
It further directed that three days later the magistrates, thirty members of the bourgeois or middle class, the Doyen of the weavers, six men from each Metier and fifty "creesers" should beg pardon of the Emperor and Queen.
There were not many men--Lord Lyons, as doyen of the diplomatic corps, the nonce, and a good many representatives of the South American Republics.
Bennet Burleigh still lives, a prosperous gentleman, and the doyen of war-correspondents.
John Oxenford, of the Times, was the doyen of the dramatic critics of my day.
Ridge said it should be remembered that Doyen had made experiments on guinea-pigs and had found they were proof against cholera, unless they had previously had a dose of alcohol.
Cleveland, your Tom Jones and your oldDoyen de Killerine again.
Doyen and Greuze also helped her with suggestions; but she was from the beginning her own teacher.
The order following the President was: the Cabinet officers; the doyenof the diplomatic corps, the Italian ambassador and his staff; the ambassadors and ministers of the other nations, according to rank.
The doyenof the diplomatic corps had sent suggestions that the ladies wear high neck and long sleeves, as the Sultan objected to the regulation European evening dress.
I must not forget to record that the Emperor, wishing to pay the price of painting the ceiling before it was finished, sent to Doyen a bank-note for a large sum--how much I do not now remember.
The room where Doyen was working was close to the Hermitage.
Doyen came to see us sometimes, and as he had been my father's best friend his visits were a great consolation.
And he held out the fish and Kenneth found himself face to face with the Doyen Carp.
By a strange contrast this Grand Doyen was a man of cruel character and abominable temper, who was ever at enmity with his fellows.
Once, when at Bicêtre waiting for a chain, Grand Doyen let the rat loose to run about the yard, where it was pounced upon by the prison cat.
A note was accordingly drawn up requesting the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps to fix a day to receive the Chinese Plenipotentiaries, who "were ready to begin negotiations and had prepared a proposal for discussion," which they enclosed.
On Christmas Eve (1900) a great meeting was held at the Spanish Legation--the Spanish Minister was doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at the time.
