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In the Convention his return made little stir, and even when early in the following July he learnt that Bourbotte, his successor at Nantes, had ordered the arrest of Goullin, Bachelier, Grandmaison, and his other friends of the committee, on the score of the drownings and the appropriation of national property confiscated from emigres, he remained calm, satisfied that his own position was unassailable.
Since the old arrangements were clearly unworkable, different universities have modified them in various ways; in Scotland the Baccalaureate has disappeared altogether, and the undergraduate passes straight to his M.A.; in France the degree of bachelier is the lowest of university qualifications, and more nearly resembles our Matriculation than anything else; in Germany the Doctorate is the reward of undergraduate studies, although it need hardly be said that those studies are on different lines from those of our own undergraduates.
Jenny and Carigny gave us a quarter-of-an-hour before dinner a capital idea! "VEUVE ET BACHELIER." As if by inspiration. No preparation for it, no formal taking of seats. It seized amazingly floated small talk over the soup beautifully. I questioned him again. 'Oh, dear, yes; there can't be a doubt about it, he answered, airily. 'Roy Richmond has won his game.
"He was afraid of hitting Mademoiselle Bachelier," Maurice interposed. Max threw him a grateful look. "Humph!" The Captain called his men around him. "Two of you . But wait. Who's back of Kopf?" "Our distinguished Colonel," snapped Max, "who was this day relieved of his straps. A case of revenge, probably." "Beauvais! Ah, ah!" The Captain smiled grimly.
Foreign students are admitted upon the same terms as French, and a diploma given by an American college, if it be of high repute, will put the student upon the same footing as a French bachelier et lettres when the object is to study law or medicine.
We should be disposed to rank the Le Vieux Bachelier of Collin d'Harleville much higher; but for judging this true picture of manners there is no scale afforded in the works of Moliere, and it can only be compared with those of Terence.
But Bachelier, a man who, next to the President Goullin, exerted the greatest influence in the committee, was gifted with a sense of humour worthy of the Revolution. He went off into peals of laughter as he surveyed the crestfallen cocassier, and, perhaps because Leroy's situation amused him, he was disposed to be humane. "No, no!" he said. "Take him back to Le Bouffay for the present.
Pierre Dan, Ministre et Superieur du Convent de la Sainte Trinité et Redemption des Captifs, fondé au Chasteau de Fontaine-bleau, et Bachelier en Theologie, de la Faculté de Paris. Avec Privilege de sa Majesté. 1637. Several Voyages to Barbary, second ed., Lond., 1736. 16th to 18th Centuries.
"Grandmaison appropriates plate under sequestration, and Bachelier plate given as a present." "Joly superintends executions and takes all he can find, plate, jewelry, precious objects." "Bolognie forces the return of a bond of twenty thousand livres already paid to him."
"The first intimation I had of it, Monsieur, was three months ago, when I had a letter from an English lawyer in London telling me that my father, Jean Paul Bachelier that was his name, Monsieur had died out there and made a will leaving all his money, about one hundred thousand francs, to me." "Yes, yes!" I murmured, for my throat felt parched and my eyes dim. Hundred thousand francs! Ye gods!
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