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The contrast between his kindly portrait and those of her feminine friends is striking and rather suggestive. "She joined to the taste for glory a simplicity which does not always accompany it, but which is often the fruit of serious studies. No woman was ever so learned, and no one deserves less to be called a femme savante.
But she was not a savante; he simply forbade her to read what he deemed it useless that she should know. At last, perceiving her so completely absorbed in her work, his attention was aroused. "What is the matter with you, that you don't open your lips?" he said. "Are you so taken up with the copying of those flowers that you can't speak?"
I would not advise you to be unhappy about Caroline's want of erudition; a very little science will do at present, and much cannot be poured into the neck of so small a vessel at once. I agree with you that it is not to be wished that she should be a savante, and she will know what others know. I have no doubt there is time enough for her to read, and little Morpeth to walk.
"Very true," said Madame, with a sigh; "but the tragedy is, after all, only suited to our nation we alone carry it to perfection." "Yet," said I, "Goldoni wrote a few fine tragedies." "Eh bien!" said Madame, "one rose does not constitute a garden!" And satisfied with this remark, la femme savante turned to a celebrated traveller to discuss with him the chance of discovering the North Pole.
"Very true," said Madame, with a sigh; "but the tragedy is, after all, only suited to our nation we alone carry it to perfection." "Yet," said I, "Goldoni wrote a few fine tragedies." "Eh bien!" said Madame, "one rose does not constitute a garden!" And satisfied with this remark, la femme savante turned to a celebrated traveller to discuss with him the chance of discovering the North Pole.
But she had already given a charming picture of the life at Cirey. Mme. du Chatelet plunged into abstractions during the day. In the evening she was no more the savante, but gave herself up to the pleasures of society with the ardor of a nature that was extreme in everything.
At a time when I most assiduously frequented this school of ancient literature, I thus expressed my opinion of a learned and various collection, which since the year 1759 has been doubled in magnitude, though not in merit "Une de ces societes, qui ont mieux immortalise Louis XIV. qu un ambition souvent pernicieuse aux hommes, commengoit deja ces recherches qui reunissent la justesse de l'esprit, l'amenete & l'eruditlon: ou l'on voit iant des decouvertes, et quelquefois, ce qui ne cede qu'a peine aux decouvertes, une ignorance modeste et savante."
The first of these men is 'vénérable et savante personne Maître Thomas de Courcelles. De Courcelles was only fifty-six in 1456, when called on to make his deposition as to the part he had played in the heroine's trial at Rouen, five-and-twenty years before.
Here, undoubtedly, was one whom ignorant people would stigmatize as "blue" or as a "femme savante;" they would of course be quite wrong and inexpressively foolish to use such terms, and yet there was, perhaps, something a little incongruous in the two sides, as it were, of Erica's nature, the keen intellect and the child-like devotion, the great love of learning and the intense love of fun and humor.
Amongst others, “M. Pascal, who had then acquired so much reputation, and another savant, were continually with this belle savante.” It is difficult to know what to make of this vague if piquant anecdote.
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