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De Maistre found a curiously characteristic kind of support for this view in the fact that evils are called fléaux: flails are things to beat with: so evils must be things with which men are beaten; and as we should not be beaten if we did not deserve it, argal, suffering is a merited punishment.
II va, de jour vetu, A l'avenir divin et pur, a la vertu, A la science qu'on voit luire, A la mort des fleaux, a l'oubli genereux, A l'abondance, au caime, au rire, a l'homme heureux, Il va, ce glorieux navire. Oh! ce navire fait le voyage sacre!
The violence of the wind is consequently due to the difference of temperature between the hot air of the plain and the cold air of the mountain. An old saying was to this effect: "Parlement, Mistral et Durance Sont les trois fleaux de Provence."
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