I am a member of the Chambre des deputes, and on a visit to England upon some commercial affairs.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If thunder's awful, how much more our dread, When Jove deputes a lady in his stead?
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young
We are amused when he informs Madame Hanska that he is giving up the Chronique de Paris -which, after a brilliant flourish of trumpets at the start, was a complete failure-because the speeches in the Chambre des deputes are so silly that he abandons the idea of taking up politics, as he had intended to do by means of journalism.
"Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings"
Mary F. Sandars