CREAM A LA VALOIS.

GERMAN AMMUNITION CAPTURED A correspondent at Nanteuil, September 12, thus described the capture of a German ammunition column while the Germans were feeling their way toward Paris: "The seven-kilometer column was winding its way along Crepy-en-Valois when General Pan sent cavalry and artillery to intercept it.

Unfortunately, they also triumphed in their manners; and they were the knights of the Round Table who, with the Valois, seated themselves upon the throne of France.

A very favorable opportunity was presented in the arrival of the queen of Navarre, Marguerite of Valois, at Namur, on her way to Spa.

26 Oc[)e]lum, a town situated among the Cottian Alps, Usseau in Piedmont, G. i. 10 Octavius, C. iii. 9 Octod[=u]rus, a town belonging to the Veragrians, among the Pennine Alps, now Martigny in the Valois, G. iii. 1 Octog[=e]sa, a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, Mequinenza, C. i. 61 Ollovico, G. vii.

"A ladder was placed against the wall for the purpose of reaching the terrace of the Rue de Valois.

Philip de Valois added considerably to its dimensions in 1337.

* Fragments of Dio from Suidas (thought by de Valois to belong to Book LXXI).

Not long after the massacre of St. Bartholomew the throne was occupied by Henry de Valois, brother to Charles the Ninth, and son of Catherine.

Henry de Valois spent whole days at table, and the constellations of the kitchen shone with the greatest splendour under this gourmand king.

Hippocrates recommends hot water in fevers, Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in loathings, Aetius in strangury,whence we conclude that warm water, having so many different qualities, must have been a very useful article at table, had it only been to assist digestion, considering that people ate copiously in the reign of the Valois.

It was my dad's cousin, Felix Valois Rodrigues, who inspired me to take up journalism.

He was one of the outposts of the strong force in Crépy-en-Valois, and had lost his way to that town.

Even in Crépy-en-Valois, which had suffered less than other towns through which the enemy had passed, I saw a wilful, wanton, stupid destruction of menno worse

Before they left Crépy-en-Valois, they fired deliberately, I was told, upon Red Cross ambulances containing French wounded.

He that desires fuller instructions may read Vossius, Valois, Saumaises, and Gataker, of whose compilations, however learned, I should think it shame to be the author.

MARIEJOL, JEAN H. A daughter of the Medicis; the romantic story of Margaret of Valois.

opened them in person at Plessis-les-Tours, seated in a great hall, in the royal seat, between Cardinal d'Amboise and Duke Francis of Valois, and surrounded by many archbishops and all the princes of the blood and other lords and barons of the said realm in great number, and he gave the order for admitting the deputies of the estates of the realm.

He felt a sincere affection for Francis de Valois, Count of Angouleme, his son-law and successor; the marriage between his daughter Claude and that prince had been the chief and most difficult affair connected with his domestic life; and it was only after the death of the queen, Anne of Brittany, that he had it proclaimed and celebrated.

Of quite another sort were the character and sentiments of Marguerite de Valois.

Long slept that mirth in dust of ancient days, Erewhile to Guise or wanton Valois dear," &c. Thus commences Dr. Ferriar's apology, which, however, can hardly be held to cover his offence; for, as a matter of fact, Sterne's borrowings extend to a good deal besides "mirth;" and some of the most unscrupulous of these forced loans are raised from passages of a perfectly serious import in the originals from which they are taken.

Gabrielle's sun was now nearing its zenith; Henri had long intended to make her his wife at the altar; proceedings for divorce from his wife, Marguerite de Valois, were running smoothly; and now the crowning day in the two lives thus romantically linked was at hand.

DAUPHIN, a name originally given to the Seigneurs of the province of Dauphiné, in allusion to the dolphin which several members of the family wore as a badge, but in 1349 given to the heir-presumptive to the crown of France, when Humbert II., dauphin of Vienne, ceded Dauphiné to Philippe of Valois, on condition that the eldest son of the king of France should assume the title, a title which was abolished after the Revolution of 1830.

DIAB`LERETS, a mountain of the Bernese Alps, between the Cantons de Vaud and de Valois.

Here, also, Margaret of Valois married Henry of Navarre, and Charles, Duc d'Alençon, married Margaret of Anjou.