Vineuil

Colonel de Vineuil still continued to inhabit, at the extreme end of the suite where the master and his family spent their daily life.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Vineuil sitting his big horse at no great distance, man and steed impassive and motionless as if carved from stone, patient were they under the leaden hail, with face turned toward the enemy.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Vineuil, disported themselves in her drawing-room, Captain Beaudoin was the only one who had really produced an impression.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Colonel Vineuil, who heard what the subject was, called him up and compelled him to tell the whole story.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Vineuil, who loomed suddenly from out the mist, sitting his horse, erect and motionless, at the intersection of two roads -- the man appearing of preternatural size, and so pale and rigid that he might have served a sculptor as a study for a statue of despair; the steed shivering in the raw, chill air of morning, his dilated nostrils turned in the direction of the distant firing.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

Vineuil made himself very agreeable to Madame de Châtillon, and if Condé were wronged by him in that quarter, he never knew of it; for Vineuil was always in great favour with him.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

Vineuil makes himself very agreeable to her, 5; meeting her after the combat of St. Antoine, Condé shows by his countenance how much he despises her, 12; is unable longer to counterbalance the counsels and influence of

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

One evening, just as he had lain down on his bed and was chatting with Vineuil, one of his trusty friends, the latter received a note which directed him to warn the Prince that two companies of guards were advancing on the side of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.

Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

He was clumsy enough to employ as a go-between in his courtship of his new mistress a certain gentleman named Vineuil, who was, it is true, one of his most skilful and attached followers, but whose good looks, agreeable and satirical wit, and enterprising character rendered him a very dangerous emissary among women.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

Marshal d'Albret exposed her moreover to be subject to, without being aware of it, the influences of the Court, and her intimacy with Vineuil tended to make her an ally, in spite of herself, of the Prince de Condé.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861