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The Incroyable, the Merveilleux, the Elegant, the three successes of the petit-maitre of discreditable etymology, have made way for the "dandy" and the "lion." The lion is not the parent of the lionne. The lionne is due to the famous song by Alfred de Musset: Avez vous vu dans Barcelone .... C'est ma maitresse et ma lionne.
The manager turned to me, very cheerful and loud, explaining: "I call him Crocodile because he lives half in, half out of the creek. Amphibious see? There's nothing else amphibious living on the island except crocodiles; so he must belong to the species eh? But in reality he's nothing less than un citoyen anarchiste de Barcelone." "A citizen anarchist from Barcelona?"
I found a poem the other day, a love-song of De Musset. Do you know that you lived in this very city years ago, Fatalité, and he saw you and loved you? How else could he have written this? "Avez-vous vu en Barcelone, Une Andalouse au sein bruni, Pâle comme un beau soir d'Autômne, C'est ma maitresse, ma lionne, La Marchesa d'Amagui."
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