The Milanese were occupied with their own affairs, owing to the coup d'état accomplished by Lodovico Sforza.

Then the people of Central Italy showed themselves capable of a bold political coup: under the leadership of Bettino Ricasoli, dictator in Tuscany, and Luigi Carlo Fariniwho held a similar office in Emilia and Romagnathey declared, by means of their assembled Deputies, their earnest desire to be incorporated with Sardinia.

" - "THE COUP D'ÉTAT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON."

He was only colonel when Fleury, the arch-conspirator and friend of Louis Napoleon, was sent to Algeria to find some officer of ability who could be bribed to join in the meditated coup d'état.

If the poet had called him "Napoleon the Wicked" it would have been more to the point, for only a supremely unscrupulous and dishonest man could have meditated and executed the coup d'état.

For ten years after the coup d'état it was the general impression that the government of Louis Napoleon was a success.

And if he displayed such clever ingenuity and forethought in laying a trap for the inquisitive, is it not more than likely that there may be other traps baited with equal craft and cunning?" "Then how are we to make the coup?"

This is such an awful thing, and so utterly fatal to all honor, that, while any other species of insult may be healed by blood-letting, this can be cured only by the coup-de-grace.

"Perhaps not," answered the other with aggravating politeness; "perhaps it was a rather nice coup leading to very important results.

The various alleys formed by the manner in which the oak trees are planted, create an imposing and majestic coup d'oeil, which is only bounded almost by the horizon.

Across this stand, and within the enclosed space, were the roe-buck, fawns, and young wild boar goaded, while the King, the Dauphin, the Duc de Grammont, and the rest of the royal party, had their shots in succession, or, as it is technically termed, their "coup."

It was no longer the lucky coup at the lansquenet table, the last comedy of Moliere, or the new opera of Lully about which they gossiped, but it was on the evils of Jansenism, on the expulsion of Arnauld from the Sorbonne, on the insolence of Pascal, or on the comparative merits of two such popular preachers as Bourdaloue and Massilon.

Portia gave him Elinor to take out, and he would have rejoiced brazenly if the table talk, from the bouillon to the ices, had not been persistently general, turning most naturally upon the Universal Oil Company's successful coup in the Belmount field.

The governor had postponed the coup from day to day, waiting upon the leisurely movements of Falkland; and at the end of the ends there remained but three hours of the final day of grace when the telegram came from Falkland with the welcome news that the Overland officials were on their way from Midland City to keep the appointment in Gaston.

The young musician took the coup de grâce bravely; without a word he gave the comte his hand in mute acceptance of his fate, and bowed himself out.

" But one of Fred's grand coup-d'oeils was the affair of the cherry-pie.

French etiquette and fashions came in, and French phrases of conveniencesuch as coup de grace, bel esprit, etc.began to appear in English prose.

Hugo had perhaps ventured to place the pause between the adjective and its noun, but it was not until Banville wrote the line, "Elle filait pensivement la blanche laine" that the caesura received its final coup de grâce.

After two years they all paint and draw alike, every one; that vile execution,they call it execution,la pâet, la peinture au premier coup.

Now it was the mark of the gunshot wound, the coup de grâce that brought the death-agony of the executed girl to its end.

Le coup de lune.

" CIRCUS A well-known theatrical manager repeats an instance of what the late W. C. Coup, of circus fame, once told him was one of the most amusing features of the show-business; the faking in the "side-show.

" Coup was the owner of a small circus that boasted among its principal attractions a man-eating ape, alleged to be the largest in captivity.

Early in the day of the first performance of Coup's enterprise at a certain Ohio town, a countryman handed the man-eating ape a piece of tobacco, in the chewing of which the beast evinced the greatest satisfaction.

However, he has had his coup de grace, and that may account for it.