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This joke, though in itself trifling, enabled me to know that the young man called Gelis was a student at the Ecole des Chartes. From the conversation which followed I was able to learn that his neighbor, blond and wan almost to diaphaneity, taciturn and sarcastic was Boulmier, a fellow student.
"Yes," replied Boulmier, very gravely. "I like novels." Gelis, who dominated both by his fine stature, imperious gestures, and ready wit, took the book, turned over a few pages rapidly, and said, "Michelet always had a great propensity to emotional tenderness. He wept sweet tears over Maillard, that nice little man introduced la paperasserie into the September massacres.
They employed all their powers of imagination to make themselves as ludicrous as possible, and all their powers of reasoning to assert the contrary of common sense. All the better for them! I do not like to see young folks too rational. The student of medicine, after glancing at the title of the book that Boulmier held in his hand, exclaimed, "What! you read Michelet you?"
It was then that I pricked up my ears. They spoke at first of original sources; and I must confess they did so in a satisfactory manner, despite their innumerable and detestable puns. Then they began to speak about contemporary studies on the subject. "Have you read," asked Boulmier, "the notice of Courajod?" "Good!" I thought to myself. "Yes," replied Gelis; "it is accurate."
"Have you read," said Boulmier, "the article of Tamisey de Larroque in the 'Revue des Questions Historiques'?" "Good!" I thought to myself, for the second time. "Yes," replied Gelis, "it is full of things."... "Good!" I said to myself, for the third time. "Mai foi! no!" replied Gelis. "Bonnard is an idiot!" Turning my head, I perceived that the shadow had reached the place where I was sitting.
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