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Corbinelli said to him, 'Sir, I conjure you to tell me, that I may read it all night. Despreaux answered, laughing, 'Ah! sir, you have read it more than once, I am sure. The Jesuit joins in, with a disdainful air, and presses Despreaux to name this marvellous writer. 'Do not press me, father, says Despreaux. The father persists.
"Well, then, why do you wish me to give up seeing such a man?" "Because he is an enemy." "Of whom?" "Of the cardinal." "What?" answered Scarron, "I continue to receive Monsieur Gilles Despreaux, who thinks ill of me, and you wish me to give up seeing the coadjutor, because he thinks ill of another man. Impossible!"
Perhaps, for the sake of the picturing of Master René carrying off a bride of seventy-three of unimpeachable quarterings it was that she succeeded in conquering her feelings of the imminence of something mysterious and uncanny; but at all events she did so, completely and the King laughed with all his heart, and vowed that Boileau Despreaux had met with his master.
In spite of court intrigues, it from that moment maintained its independence and its dignity. "M. Despreaux," writes the banker Leverrier to the Duke of Noailles, "represented to the Academy, with a great deal of heat, that all was rack and ruin, since it was nothing more but a cabal of women that put Academicians in the place of those who died. Then he read out loud some verses by M. de St.
At last Despreaux takes hold of his arm, and squeezing it very hard, says, 'You will have it, father; well, then, egad! it is Pascal. 'Pascal, says the father, all blushes and astonishment; 'Pascal is as beautiful as the false can be. 'False, replied Despreaux: 'false!
Neither the King nor Madame de Maintenon ever spoke to him again, or even looked at him; and he conceived so much sorrow at this, that he fell into a languor, and died two years afterwards. At his death, Valincourt was chosen to work in his place with Despreaux upon the history of the King.
The young man took the tiny hand of his friend, pressing it in his own. "'The woman I adore is Mademoiselle Guimard! "'What! Guimard of the Opera? the fiancée of Despréaux?" Claude still held the hands of Phlipote, who was trembling now, and almost on fire at the story of this ambitious love. In return she reveals her own. It was Good Friday.
Neither the King nor Madame de Maintenon ever spoke to him again, or even looked at him; and he conceived so much sorrow at this, that he fell into a languor, and died two years afterwards. At his death, Valincourt was chosen to work in his place with Despreaux upon the history of the King.
We will do as Despreaux did, we will enter the park, the trees of which are of eight years' growth only that is to say, in their present position and whose summits even yet, as they proudly tower aloft, blushingly unfold their leaves to the earliest rays of the rising sun.
They were very difficult to write, because there could be no love in them, and because they are sacred tragedies, in which, from respect to the Holy Scriptures, it was necessary rigidly to keep to the historical truth. They were several times played at Saint Cyr before a select Court. Racine was charged with the history of the King, conjointly with Despreaux, his friend.
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