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Mademoiselle Betsee, and intimating that the creams were for her.

The emperor possessed among his suite the most accomplished confiseur in the world. M. Piron daily supplied his table with the most elaborate, and really sometimes the most elegant designs in pâtisserie—spun sugar, and triumphal arches, and amber palaces glittering with prismatic tints, that looked as if they had been built for the queen of the fairies, after her majesty's own designs. Napoleon often sent us in some of the prettiest of these architectural delicacies, and I shall always continue to think the bon-bons from the atelier of Monsieur Piron more exquisite than any thing I ever tasted. But I suppose I must grant, with a sigh, that early youth threw its couleur de rose tints over Piron's bon-bons, as well as over the more intellectual joys of that happy period. The emperor sometimes added sugared words, to make these sweet things sweeter.

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