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And with the Debussys and Magnards and Ravels, the d'Indys and Dukas and Schmitts, the Chaussons and Ropartz's and the Milhauds that followed immediately on César Franck, an institution like the Société Nationale de Musique came to have a meaning. Once again, French music was. Debussy Debussy's music is our own.
Belluomo rises from the bed of his wife's lover's wife, the kerchiefed housewife is astir, a saucer of acetic acid in her hand. In Rodot's Yvonne and Madeleine newmake their tumbled beauties, shattering with gold teeth chaussons of pastry, their mouths yellowed with the pus of flan breton. Faces of Paris men go by, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores. Noon slumbers.
They dined by the latticed window; two candles lighted them; old Anne served them old Anne of Fäouette in her wide white coiffe and collarette, her velvet bodice and her chaussons broidered with the rose. Always she talked as she moved about with dish and salver garrulous, deaf, and aged, and perhaps flushed with the gentle afterglow of that second infancy which comes before the night. "Ouidame!
In dress he was like the ordinary bourgeois in the country, wearing generally a woven coat like a cardigan jacket in the studio, at the door of which he would leave his sabots and wear the felt slippers, or chaussons, which are worn with the wooden shoes. This was not the affectation of remaining a peasant; every one in the country in France wears sabots, and very comfortable they are.
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