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Updated: June 22, 2025
No more fermiers-généraux, no abbés nor knights nor white-coated friars. The members of your profession constitute the whole gastronomic body. Sustain with firmness that great responsibility, even if you must share the fate of the three hundred Spartans at the Pass of Thermopylae." At the same dinner I observed the following noteworthy fact.
Queer incommunicable joy it is, the joy of the vivid phrase that turns the statement of the horridest fact to beauty! And another book which had no beginning for him was the second volume of the Travels of the Abbes Hue and Gabet.
As soon as he saw me he embraced me, called me his dear friend, and named his guests. There were seven or eight girls, all of them pretty, three or four castrati who played women's parts in the Roman theatre, and five or six abbes, the husband of every wife and the wives of every husband, who boasted of their wickedness, and challenged the girls to be more shameless than they.
The court of France has always been foolishly particular on the question of titles, and is even now sparing of the title of monsieur, although it is common enough everywhere every man who was not titled was called Sieur. I have remarked that the king never addressed his bishops otherwise than as abbes, although they were generally very proud of their titles.
The great number of medals that had been struck on all occasions the most ordinary not having been forgotten were collected, engraved, and destined for a medallic history. The Abbes Tallemant, Toureil, and Dacier, three learned members of the Academy, were charged with the explanation to be placed opposite each of these medals, in a large volume of the most magnificent impression of the Louvre.
There were, besides the troops regular and irregular, about three thousand priests and abbes with the army, armed with scourging-whips, and chanting the most lugubrious canticles: these reverend men were found to be a hindrance rather than otherwise to the operations of the regular forces. The Duke himself set the example, and blacked to a nicety the boots of Henri.
During the negotiations between the French and English commissioners on the boundaries of Acadia, the suggestion was made by the Abbes de L'Isle-Dieu and Le Loutre, that if it should be found impossible to hold all the lands north of the Bay of Fundy for France the St. John river region should be left undivided and in possession of its native inhabitants.
They were imitated in their vices by a rabble of priests out of place, to whom the title of abbot was given in politeness, the little abbes of French biography and fiction. These men lived in garrets, haunted cheap eating-houses, and appeared on certain days of the week at rich men's tables, picking up a living as best they could.
I am ready to win battles for the Jewish bank, or against the Jewish bank, for the Church or against the Church." "For the Church is better. Against the Church we cannot assist you," said Preciozi. "I will try first, for the Church. To whom can you recommend me first?" The two abbes said nothing, and drank in silence. "Perhaps Verry would see him," said Cittadella. "Hm!..." replied Preciozi.
He gave me a pleasant welcome, shewed me his library, and entrusted me to the care of one of his abbes, a man of parts, who acted as my cicerone every where. Twenty years afterwards, this same abbe was of great service to me in Rome, and, if still alive, he is a canon of St. John Lateran. On the following day, I took the communion in the Santa-Casa.
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