[4] Galatée ayant été nymphe, Vauvres, qu'habite Galatée, signifie: Vauvres où il y a des bergers.
[5] Façon poétique de dire qu'il y a une manufacture de porcelaines à Sèvres.
[CHAPTER III]
Imperial literature—The Jeunesse de Henri IV.—Mercier and Alexandre Duval—The Templiers and their author—César Delrieu—Perpignan—Mademoiselle Georges' rupture with the Théâtre-Français—Her flight to Russia—The galaxy of kings—The tragédienne acts as ambassador
In this same year, 1802, Georges was engaged at the Théâtre-Français under Bonaparte's protection, and Duchesnois under Joséphine's, at a salary of four thousand francs each. Six months later they were practically members of the company. This was the very highest favour that could be bestowed on them; and it was owing to the influence of Bonaparte on the one side, and that of Joséphine on the other, that this double result was attained.
"How was it that Napoleon came to desert you?" I asked Georges one day.
"He left me to become an emperor," she replied.