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"Ah! yes, Dauvergne the senator for Dijon but he's altogether ignorant of University matters, he hasn't the slightest qualification." "Well, as for that," resumed Fonsegue, "I'm trying to think. Dauvergne is certainly a good-looking fellow, tall and fair and decorative.
He's the man for us, I tell you." Duvillard thereupon declared that he knew him, and considered him a very decent fellow. Besides, he or another, it mattered nothing! "Dauvergne, Dauvergne," repeated Monferrand. "Mon Dieu, yes! After all, why not? He'll perhaps make a very good minister. Let us say Dauvergne."
"Ah! yes, Dauvergne the senator for Dijon but he's altogether ignorant of University matters, he hasn't the slightest qualification." "Well, as for that," resumed Fonsegue, "I'm trying to think. Dauvergne is certainly a good-looking fellow, tall and fair and decorative.
He's the man for us, I tell you." Duvillard thereupon declared that he knew him, and considered him a very decent fellow. Besides, he or another, it mattered nothing! "Dauvergne, Dauvergne," repeated Monferrand. "/Mon Dieu/, yes! After all, why not? He'll perhaps make a very good minister. Let us say Dauvergne."
He's the man for us, I tell you." Duvillard thereupon declared that he knew him, and considered him a very decent fellow. Besides, he or another, it mattered nothing! "Dauvergne, Dauvergne," repeated Monferrand. "Mon Dieu, yes! After all, why not? He'll perhaps make a very good minister. Let us say Dauvergne."
Besides, he's immensely rich, has a most charming young wife which does no harm, on the contrary and he gives real fetes at his place on the Boulevard St. Germain." It was only with hesitation that Fonsegue himself had ventured to suggest Dauvergne. But by degrees his selection appeared to him a real "find." "Wait a bit!
And in that vat Pierre first marked the scum of the political world: Monferrand who strangled Barroux, who purchased the support of hungry ones such as Fonsegue, Duthil and Chaigneux, who made use of those who attained to mediocrity, such as Taboureau and Dauvergne; and who employed even the sectarian passions of Mege and the intelligent ambition of Vignon as his weapons.
Monferrand and Dauvergne, as the newspapers afterwards related, gave the signal for applause; and the whole house joined in it, partly from amusement and partly perhaps in a spirit of irony. During the interval between the fourth and fifth acts there was quite a procession of visitors to Duvillard's box, where the greatest excitement prevailed.
Besides, he's immensely rich, has a most charming young wife which does no harm, on the contrary and he gives real fetes at his place on the Boulevard St. Germain." It was only with hesitation that Fonsegue himself had ventured to suggest Dauvergne. But by degrees his selection appeared to him a real "find." "Wait a bit!
A really charming man was Dauvergne, the embodiment of graciousness, the very flower of the Monferrand ministry. His was the velvet hand in that administration whose leader had a hand of iron. "He told me, my beauty," said Duthil, "that a pretty girl was in place everywhere."
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