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Updated: May 8, 2025
The first was a dull poet, a profound scholar, somewhat of a pedant, and notoriously careless in his dress le vieux Chapelain, his irreverent pupil used to call him. When he died of apoplexy, years afterwards, she wrote to her daughter: "He confesses by pressing the hand; he is like a statue in his chair. So God confounds the pride of philosophers."
In the mean time, it was a veritable conspiracy against her. M. Favoral had succeeded in interesting in the success of his designs his habitual guests, not M. and Mme. Desclavettes, who had been seduced from the first, but M. Chapelain and old Desormeaux himself. So that they all vied with each other in their efforts to bring the "dear child" to reason, and to enlighten her with their counsels.
Take a carriage." The servant who took the order was so expeditious, that, in less than twenty minutes, M. Chapelain arrived. "Ah! we want all your experience, my friend," said the marquis to him. "Look here. Read these telegrams."
'M. de Malherbe, M. de Grasse, and yourself must be very little poets, if Ronsard be a great one. Time has brought in his revenges, and Messieurs Chapelain and De Grasse are as well forgotten as thou art well remembered. Men could not always be deaf to thy sweet old songs, nor blind to the beauty of thy roses and thy loves.
We are but children by the side of them." It was through M. Chapelain, the Desclavettes, and old Desormeaux, that these news reached the Rue St. Gilles. It was also through Maxence, whose battalion had been dissolved, and who, whilst waiting for something better, had accepted a clerkship in the office of the Orleans Railway, where he earned two hundred francs a month.
A number of foreign savants and scholars were the recipients of his distinguished bounty, in the form of presents or pensions; among Frenchmen who were similarly benefited were Racine, Quinault, Fléchier, Chapelain, Cotin, Lulli.
M. Braga, the Portuguese scholar, quotes an old French writer, Jean le Chapelain, as recording a custom in Normandy similar to that of Ross-shire, that the guest was always expected to repay hospitality by telling tales or singing songs to his host. And he states that the emigrants from Portugal to Brazil took this custom with them.
At last, after the most violent recriminations, he forgave, in appearance at least. But the scales had dropped from his eyes. He started in quest of information, and discovered startling enormities. He heard from M. Chapelain that Maxence remained whole weeks at a time without appearing at the office. If he had not complained before, it was because he had yielded to the urgent entreaties of Mme.
When M. Desclavettes and M. Chapelain had complained to their hearts' contents, the one of the shop, the other of his office, they never failed to add, "You laugh at us, because you are engaged in large operations, where people make as much money as they like." They seemed to hold his financial capacities in high estimation. They consulted him, and followed his advice.
The situation struck them as rather pleasant. The others, M. Desclavettes, M. Chapelain, and the worthy M. Desormeaux himself, could have racked their brains in vain to find terms wherein to express the immensity of their astonishments. Vincent Favoral, their old friend, paying for cashmeres, diamonds, and parlor sets! Such an idea could not enter in their minds.
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