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CXLIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, 9 January, 1870 I have had so much proof to correct that I am stupefied with it. I needed that to console me for your departure, troubadour of my heart, and for another departure also, that of my drudge of a Plauchmar and still another departure, that of my grand-nephew Edme, my favorite, the one who played the marionettes with Maurice.
Chastenay continued: "I should in that case only be giving back a part of what I owe you." Then turning to Clerambault, he added: "He is the one who keeps us all up, is it not so, Madame Fanny?" "Indeed yes, I could not do without my strong son," said the mother tenderly. "They take advantage of the fact that I cannot defend myself," said Edmé to Clerambault. "You see I cannot stir an inch."
Whenever Clerambault went to see Edmé, Madame Froment was almost always there; but she kept in the background, sitting at the window with her work, only stopping occasionally to throw a tender glance at her son.
Pucello Marceliano at four hundred livres and Edme Marceliano at two hundred livres were in the employ of Henri II. It was the former who laid out the magnificent Parterre de Diane at Chenonceaux, where Catherine de Médici later, being smitten with the skill of the Florentines, gave the further commission of the Jardin Vert, which was intended to complete this parterre, to Henri le Calabrese and Jean Collo.
He felt the need of confiding to a heart that could feel the pain and grandeur of the tragedy of which his friend had been at once the hero and the victim. Edmé Froment had been struck on the spinal column by an exploding shell.
Clerambault looked up and saw on the other side of the couch a tall young man full of health and strength, who seemed to be about the same age as Edmé, who smiled and said to Clerambault: "My friend Chastenay has enough vitality to lend me some and to spare." "If that were only literally true," said the other, and the two friends exchanged an affectionate glance.
Instead of tissue-paper, a thousand-franc note covered each of these engravings . Edme, vol. ii., p. 383. On another occasion, the king gave her a copy of the "Charter;" and in this each leaf was also covered with a thousand-franc note, as in the Bible.
"You shall, judge yourself. When Daniel fell, he said, 'This time, they have not missed me!" "Did he say so?" "Word for word. And Saint Edme, who was farther from him than I was, heard it as distinctly as I did."
The girl Edme Huet, a woman of Brescia, deposed that Sainte-Croix went to see the marquise every day, and that in a box belonging to that lady she had seen two little packets containing sublimate in powder and in paste: she recognised these, because she was an apothecary's daughter.
"They do not need it now," said Edmé, "the farther off one is, the better one sees; but when I was close to everything I saw very little." "Tell me what you see now." "It is getting late," said Edmé, "and I am rather tired. Will you come another time?" "Tomorrow, if you will let me." As Clerambault went out Chastenay joined him.