The worst sacrifice of all he doubtless confided, with savage bitterness, to the Countess, as he confided it to the readers of his autobiography, it was to resign the nominal service of Piedmont-to put aside, for good and all, that brilliant sardinian uniform in which he looked to such advantage.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In the interior eight large sardinian granite columns and four marble piers support twelve arches, over which rises the tier of piers and arches which support the cupola, within conical, but externally hemispherical.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
It was a hollow affair, the voting being a mockery, but the sardinian government had never made itself seriously felt in Savoy, for either good or ill; the people were a quiet and law-abiding race, and while I was in the country I never heard of a crime or a prosecution.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman