Crossword-Solution: GARDES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Then, after closing it, he came back and plunged into his armchair, saying to Nanon,-- “Get me some black-currant ratafia.” Too excited, however, to remain long in one place, he got up, looked at the portrait of Monsieur de la Bertelliere, and began to sing, doing what Nanon called his dancing steps,-- “Dans les gardes francaises J’avais un bon papa.” Nanon, Madame Grandet, and Eugenie looked at each other in silence.

The pair were exchanging a few whispered sentences in the midst of great attention from the lords of the court, massed against the wall which separated the _salle des gardes_ from the royal bedroom, like a living tapestry backed by the rich tapestry of art crowded by a thousand personages.

The two Lorrain princes were there alone, standing before the magnificent fireplace, which backs against that in the _salle des gardes_ around which the ladies of the two queens were grouped.

The king, giving his arm to his mother, recrossed the _salle des gardes_, announcing to the court as he passed along that on the following day he should leave Blois for the chateau of Amboise.

After that, in 1813, the mother Beauvisage, having become a widow, saved her son once more from enrolment in the Gardes, thanks to the influence of the Comte de Gondreville.