In anticipation of the happy event, he engaged and furnished a suite
of apartments in the Rue de Helder; and as it was necessary that the
bride should come to Paris to provide her trousseau, it was agreed that
the wedding should take place there, instead of at Bellefonds, as had
been first projected,--an arrangement the more desirable, that a press
of business rendered Monsieur de Chaulieu's absence from Paris
inconvenient.
Brides and bridegrooms in France, except of the very high classes, are
not much in the habit of making those honeymoon excursions so universal
in this country. A day spent in visiting Versailles, or St. Cloud, or
even the public places of the city, is generally all that precedes the
settling down into the habits of daily life. In the present instance,
St. Denis was selected, from the circumstance of Natalie's having a
younger sister at school there, and also because she had a particular
desire to see the Abbey.
The wedding was to take place on a Thursday; and on the Wednesday
evening, having spent some hours most agreeably with Natalie, Antoine
de Chaulieu returned to spend his last night in his bachelor apartments.
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