"“A Friend of Napoleon” by Richard Connell" Topic
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Tango01 | 22 Aug 2019 9:01 p.m. PST |
"All Paris held no happier man than Papa Chibou. He loved his work — that was why. Other men might say — did say, in fact — that for no amount of money would they take his job; no, not for ten thousand francs for a single night. It would turn their hair white and give them permanent goose flesh, they averred. On such men Papa Chibou smiled with pity. What stomach had such zestless ones for adventure? What did they know of romance? Every night of his life Papa Chibou walked with adventure and held the hand of romance. Every night he conversed intimately with Napoleon; with Marat and his fellow revolutionists; with Carpentier and Caesar; with Victor Hugo and Lloyd George; with Foch and with Bigarre, the Apache murderer whose unfortunate penchant for making ladies into curry led him to the guillotine; with Louis XVI and with Madame Lablanche, who poisoned eleven husbands and was working to make it an even dozen when the police deterred her; with Marie Antoinette and with sundry early Christian martyrs who lived in sweet resignation in electric-lighted catacombs under the sidewalk of the Boulevard des Capucines in the very heart of Paris. They were all his friends and he had a word and a joke for each of them as, on his nightly rounds, he washed their faces and dusted out their ears, for Papa Chibou was night watchman at the Museum Pratoucy — "The World in Wax. Admission, one franc. Children and soldiers, half price. Nervous ladies enter the Chamber of Horrors at their own risk. One is prayed not to touch the wax figures or to permit dogs to circulate in the establishment."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
ConnaughtRanger | 23 Aug 2019 12:23 p.m. PST |
What a disappointment – I thought this was a thread about Brechtel198 and Gazzola. |
Tango01 | 23 Aug 2019 12:24 p.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha…! Amicalement Armand |
Gazzola | 30 Aug 2019 5:57 a.m. PST |
ConnaughtRanger A friend – one cannot be a friend of someone unless one knew, met and lived during the same historical period as the friend. Admirer – one who admires the achievements of someone living now or in the past and who does not have to have actually met, talked or lived during the same historical period. And considering the post said 'friend', not 'friends', it referred to one friend not two. I'm sorry you were 'disappointed' but I'm sure that if you try your best not to get 'friends' and 'admirers' mixed up, you might not be disappointed again. LOL |
Tango01 | 30 Aug 2019 9:34 p.m. PST |
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ConnaughtRanger | 31 Aug 2019 4:37 p.m. PST |
His Facebook pages have loads of Friends? |
Gazzola | 06 Sep 2019 6:10 a.m. PST |
ConnaughtRanger Er, are you saying the great man is operating a Facebook page from the grave. Clever that, don't you think? LOL |
ConnaughtRanger | 08 Sep 2019 4:58 a.m. PST |
Surely this is him? link I gave up counting the other profiles after a couple of hundred. |
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