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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Look here, look here; do you mean to compromise me, citizen Cadenette?" "Monsieur le Baron, I entreat you, call me Cadenette; you'll honor me by that proof of familiarity; but don't call me citizen. Fie; that's a revolutionary denomination! Even in the worst of the Terror I always called my wife Madame Cadenette. I should have thought that M. le Baron would be there."
But, you see, the 18th Brumaire has knocked it all down; how could any one friz Bonaparte's hair! Ah! there," continued Cadenette, puffing out the dog's ears of his client "there's aristocratic hair for you, soft and fine as silk, and takes the tongs so well one would think you wore a wig. See, Monsieur le Baron, you wanted to be as handsome as Adonis!
"Ah! monsieur, when one thinks that for five years I was the only man who had an atom of powder 'a la marechale. Why, Monsieur le Baron, a man was guillotined for owning a box of powder!" "I've known people who were guillotined for less than that, Cadenette. But explain how you happen to be a ci-devant. I like to understand everything." "It's very simple, Monsieur le Baron.
Remember this style, for if ever they cut off my head I shall choose to have it dressed like that, for there will probably be women at my execution." "And M. le Baron wants them to regret him," said the wig-maker gravely. "Yes, and in the meantime, my dear Cadenette, here is a crown to reward your labors. Have the goodness to tell them below to call a carriage for me." Cadenette sighed.
"He necessarily applied to an obliging agency, where they excited his jealousy, exasperated him day after day by making him believe that Josine Cadenette was making an absolute fool of him, had no more a sick aunt than she had any virtue, but that during the day she continued the little debaucheries which she committed with him at night, and that she shamelessly frequented some discreet bachelor's lodgings, where more than probably one of his own best friends was amusing himself at his expense, and having his share of the cake.
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