He had already demurred to le vilain titre de roi, and on January 27th announced his final rejection of the offer.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
It was to be quite otherwise in the last and best, though even here the heroine en titre is hardly, even though we have her own letters to body her out, more substantial than her elder sisters.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Sainte-Beuve at once became the critic en titre of the movement, though he did not very long continue in formal connection with it.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury