The Duc de L'Omelette

The Duc de L'Omelette (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish):Keats fell by a criticism. Who was it died of "The Andromache"? Ignoble souls! De L'Omelette perished of an ortolan. L'histoire en est breve. Assist me, Spirit of Apicius!A golden cage bore the little winged wanderer, enamored, melting, indolent, to the Chaussee D'Antin, from its home in far Peru. From its queenly possessor La Bellissima, to the Duc De L'Omelette, six peers of the empire conveyed the happy bird.That night the Duc was to sup alone. In the privacy of his bureau he reclined languidly on that ottoman for which he sacrificed his loyalty in outbidding his king the notorious ottoman of Cadet.