It is, however, the picture in these letters of the society of the French emigres in and about London that gives so much interest to the last group of correspondence.
After felling the trees in a few acres of their respective allotments, some of these emigres withdrew from the country.
There are some representatives of the originalemigres still to be met with in the neighbourhood of the Oak Ridges; but they have not in every instance continued to be seised of the lands granted in 1798.
Many emigres lived solely on her benefactions; she also kept up a very active correspondence with the Sisters of Charity who nursed the sick, and sent them a multitude of things.
They had also as instructors many personages of the old court, who had been struck out of the list of emigres by the kindness of the Emperor, and now solicited earnestly for themselves and their wives employment in the new imperial court.
Unworthy Frenchmen, emigres to whom we have extended pardon, have donned the white cockade, and gone over to our enemies.
I had spoken to him about you, and I made him fully realise that if he treats you well he is likely to coax some of the other young emigres into his service.
This event made a sensation; it was used later to refute the sarcasms of the "Constitutionnel," on the method employed by some emigres in paying their debts.
I should be accused of having a suspect, probably one of the emigres hidden here, and it would be difficult for me to explain your reception.
The eastern frontier is of course the safest to cross, but the distance is very great and, in the towns near the border, a very sharp lookout is kept to prevent emigres escaping.
These reactionary exiles, or emigres as they were termed, collected in force along the northern and eastern frontier, especially at Coblenz on the Rhine.
A decree of perpetual banishment was enacted against the emigres and it was soon determined to bring the king to trial before the Convention.
Their increased wealth enabled them to buy up the estates of the outlawed emigres and the confiscated lands of the Church.
The property of the emigres was confiscated for the benefit of the state.
By 1795 all France, except only the emigres and secret conspirators, had more or less graciously accepted the republic.
Had the reactionaries been restricted entirely to emigres and the royal family, it is hardly possible that they would have been so troublesome as they were.
It was from us that he first learned that the young emigreshad driven General Vandamme from the presence of the King.
He had destroyed the revolution which had sustained him, he had recalled the emigres who despised him, he had married an archduchess who preferred Vienna to Paris, and he had chosen his bitterest enemies for his counsellors.
From that moment the idea never left me that matters would end badly, and that even if the emigres stopped here, they had done too much mischief already.
The emigres and priests who had returned to France were violently expelled.
To avoid the election of royalists, the Convention had decided to banish all emigres in perpetuity.
In 1800 little or no difficulty was made over erasing names from the fatal list, and some few emigres began to return.
In contrast with so many emigreswho had learned nothing and forgotten nothing, she had learned much and retained it.
The war party at Vienna, however, will not submit without hoping for some counter-revolution--a dream which the emigres and the diplomacy of Pillnitz still cherishes with the utmost tenacity.
He would have to learn all he could of the movements of the emigres and the plans of the English Government, and report them to his own.
Chance had thrown him into the way of many of the French emigres at that time in London.
There thousands of emigres were received under the protection of foreign powers, awaiting the ripe moment for the impact of foreign armies on French soil and the hoped-for reconquest of the monarchists.
At the same moment the corps of the emigres attacked General Dubouquet, in the defile of the Chene-Populeux.
Hemmed in on the one side of Les Eveches by the Prince de Hohenlohe; on the Paris side by the King of Prussia, the Prussians were within six leagues of Chalons, the emigres still nearer.
After my summer with the Senecas, church-stoves didn't highly interest me, so I took to haunting round among the French emigres which Philadelphia was full of.
All our poor emigres said he was surely finished this time, but Red Jacket and me we didn't think it likely, not unless he was quite dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emigres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
