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How many poets occur in an age, who are either good prose writers, or as witty in the intercourse of daily life as Madame Cornuel? Buffon was dull company; Newton was never in love; Lord Byron loved nobody but himself; Rousseau was gloomy and half crazy; La Fontaine absent-minded.
It was this that caused Madame Cornuel to remark, "The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there!" The King Alters His Opinion about Madame Scarron. He Wants Her to Assume Another Name. He Gives Her the Maintenon Estates. She and Madame de Montespan Visit These. A Strange Story.
Madame Deschars is too prudish, Madame Foullepointe too absolute in her household, and she knows it; indeed, what doesn't she know? She is good-natured, she sees good society, she wishes to have the best: people overlook the vivacity of her witticisms, as, under louis XIV, they overlooked the remarks of Madame Cornuel.
No, no, come and sit down by Madame de Cornuel: she longs to be introduced to you, and is one of the wittiest women in Europe." "With all my heart! provided she employs her wit ill-naturedly, and uses it in ridiculing other people, not praising herself." "Oh! nobody can be more satirical; indeed, what difference is there between wit and satire? Come, Count!"
"Ah, you may well ask!" cried Madame de Cornuel. "Why, he lived for many years in the disguise of a woman, and had all sorts of curious adventures." "Mort Diable!" cried Hamilton; "it was entering your ranks, Madame, as a spy. I hear he makes but a sorry report of what he saw there."
The great literary wave of the seventeenth century reached its brilliant climax and broke upon the shores of a new era. But the seeds of thought had been scattered, to spring up in the great literature of humanity that marked the eighteenth century. Salons of the Noblesse "The Illustrious Sappho" Her Romances The Samedis Bon Mots of Mme. Cornuel Estimate of Mlle. de Scudery
Deshoulieres, beautiful and a poet; of Mme. Cornuel, of whom it was said that "every sin she confessed was an epigram"; of Mme. de Choisy, witty and piquante; of Mme. de Doulanges, also a wit and femme d'esprit.
"In that respect, Madame," said Hamilton, taking snuff, and bowing very low, "in that respect, I must strongly remind you of your excellent husband." "Fie!" cried Madame de Cornuel; then, turning to me, she said, "Ah! Monsieur, if you /could/ have come to Paris some years ago, you would have been enchanted with us: we are sadly changed.
"Come, Count Antoine," cried the lively de Cornuel, "we must not turn our weapons against each other; and when you attack a woman's sex you attack her individually. But what makes you look so intently, Count Devereux, at that ugly priest?" The person thus flatteringly designated was Montreuil; he had just caught my eye, among a group of men who were conversing eagerly. "Hush!
It was this that caused Madame Cornuel to remark, "The pulpit is in want of comedians; they work wonders there!" The King Alters His Opinion about Madame Scarron. He Wants Her to Assume Another Name. He Gives Her the Maintenon Estates. She and Madame de Montespan Visit These. A Strange Story.
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