Flotte stayed some time in Madrid, and then went to the army, which was still in quarters.
The commissary was ordered to give up the pocket-book, an order that he complied with very rapidly, and Flotte was made prisoner, and escorted back to the spot he had just left.
Both Renaut and Flotte had been entrusted with his secret.
Flotte fearing that something was meant by this, slipped a pocket-book into the hands of the commissary, requesting him to take care of it.
At last Flotte took leave of the Marechal, asking him for an escort for himself and a commissary, with whom he meant to go in company across the Pyrenees.
They had not proceeded far before Flotte perceived that they were followed by other troops besides those guarding them.
Of the second day's fight he says: 'Sur les six heures du matin nous apperçumes la flotte des Anglais qui revenoit dans une ordre admirable.
He also quotes a work published at Amsterdam in 1668 which says: 'Le Comte de Sandwich sépara la flotte Hollandaise en deux vers l'une heure du midi.
Presently, wandering about the mazy byways in search of some refuge, he fell in with Pierre Flotte in like predicament with himself.
In vain that shrewd old fox Flotte pointed out that when once the Italian archers had broken the Flemish ranks and constrained them to quit their entrenchment, the nobles alone would have the glory of putting the enemy to flight.
De Flotte disguised himself as a servant, and in this manner succeeded in crossing the frontier at Mouscron.
During that same night, and as early as four o'clock in the morning, De Flotte was in the Faubourg St. Antoine.
Marguerite, De Flotte went to the Faubourg St. Marceau, Madier de Montjau went to Belleville, Charamaule and Maigne proceeded to the Boulevards.
De Flotte and Madier de Montjau were specially delegated, De Flotte for the left bank of the river and the district of the schools, Madier for the Boulevards and the outskirts.
Before the first streaks of dawn De Flotte was at the rendezvous opposite the Lenoir Market.
De Flotte and Bancel wished to accompany me, fearing that I should be arrested by the regiment guarding the Bank.
This unfortunate shot killed a soldier between De Flotte and Schoelcher.
The Students of Law and of Medicine cheered De Flotteon the Place de Panthéon.
De Flotteand Bancel did not leave me until they had seen me get into my vehicle.
Baudin and De Flotte were amongst those who girded on these improvised sashes.
De Flottenudged me with his elbow, and whispered,-- "Do you know Fialin?
To such men as Pierre Flotteand Guillaume de Nogaret the true position of the Church was that of subjection to the State, as it had been under the successors of Constantine, and in their eyes Boniface VIII.
It was promised him, but Aimeric, having secured the good offices of Pierre Flotte and the Duke of Burgundy, thought he could obtain his purpose for less, and refused to pay it.
At the moment when the train was about to start, Flotte insisted again, "Do not go if you have not the intention of returning.
Lagarde should remain at Versailles; he will come back; he has sworn it to me myself," and he gave Flotte a note for Lagarde.
On the 17th Flotte received a letter in which Lagarde informed him that his presence was still indispensable at Versailles.
Flotte complained to the Archbishop, who could not believe in this desertion.
Flotte again took up the negotiation through Darboy, who named Deguerry as envoy to Versailles.
The Archbishop furnished him with instructions, and on the 12th April Flotte conducted Lagarde to the station and made him swear to return if he failed in his mission.
The members of the assembly were influenced each by the other according to their arrival; the pungent and wily eloquence of Peter Flottedid the rest.
Peter Flotte dwelt especially on this latter argument, and appealed in turn to the interests of the nobility and of the clergy, and to national pride.
Then Flotte was sent to Italy to demand the surrender "of the child of perdition," that Philip might make of him "an excellent sacrifice to God.
In reality, consolidation had already gone so far that money had become the prevailing form of force in the kingdom of France; therefore the monied class was on the whole the strongest class, and Flotte was their mouthpiece.
Of this class the lawyers were the spokesmen, and men like Flotte and Nogaret, the chancellors of Philip the Fair, expressed the notion of centralization as perfectly as the jurists of ancient Rome.
Flotte had been killed at Courtray, and had been succeeded by the redoubtable Nogaret, whose grandfather was believed to have been burned as a heretic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flotte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
