This peaceful life was broken by a visit in 1846 to his maternal grandmother, the Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Baden.
And finally, both the Mayor and Madame Coquereau would place the blushing and adorable Mademoiselle Stéphanie in his arms and her two hundred and fifty thousand francs dowry in his pocket.
First he learned that Mademoiselle Stéphanie would go to a husband with two hundred and fifty thousand francs.
And gathering up Stéphanie like a bunch of snowdrops, the yellow, galvanized iron old lady swept out of the room.
Anyhow Walter and John and Isabel and Margaret and Rupert and Stéphanie and little Foch began life as whitebait.
From the beginning it seems to have been recognised that Stéphanie at least would have to be content with a humbler sphere than her more gifted brothers.
Princess Stéphanie was charming in her white tulle dress, with silver stars, trimmed with orange flowers, and her diamond frontlet.
Much love to Stéphanie and to every one, including M.
Madame Campan wrote to Madame Louis about her young pupil as follows: "I am certainly surprised at the way Mademoiselle Stéphanie has turned out since she returned from Saint Leu.
The marriage of Mademoiselle Stéphanie de Beauharnais with the hereditary Prince of Baden was at first warmly opposed by the Margravine, this Prince's mother.
The young Stéphanie became an Imperial Highness and took precedence of the Emperor's sisters, while her father was merely one of the herd of senators.
During the childhood of Mademoiselle Stéphanie de Beauharnais no one would have predicted the lofty destiny that awaited her.
Of Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis, it were tempting to say a good deal personally if we did biographies here when they can easily be found elsewhere.
Princess Stéphanie had received magnificent gifts from her husband, and still more splendid ones from the Emperor.
But Stéphanie did not reply with her usual saucy readiness; and Henri, noticing her agitation, quickly came to her relief, making some commonplace inquiry about the numbers who were present.
A few questions about time and place were asked, and the answers showed that Stéphanie had carefully considered every detail of her plan.
Stéphanie we used to know, whom I have so often held in my arms?
She added many loving words, to which Clémence as well as Stéphanie listened with deep interest.
She says Stéphanie has behaved admirably, tending her father bravely and carefully, and watching beside him to the very end.
I have always said that Mademoiselle Stéphanie de Sartines will one day be a beautiful woman,” Henri answered in a tone of decision.
The boyish quarrels of Emile with clever little Stéphanie used to be the amusement of the household; and that a serious attachment had sprung out of them was not by any means improbable.
The accounts of Stéphanie were particularly interesting to her.
She observed that the will of Stéphanie’s guardian was very weak, while that of Stéphanie herself was remarkably strong.
Stéphanie shook her head with a vehement negative.
Maria Amelia, last daughter of the Grand Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Baden and of the Grand Duchess, née Stéphanie de Beauharnais.
Daughter of the Grand Duke Charles Louis of Baden and of Stéphanie de Beauharnais.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phanie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.