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How it is that Balzac has precisely the right scene in his mind, a house that perfectly expresses his donnée and all its associations that, of course, is Balzac's secret; his method would be nothing without the quality of his imagination.
The whole appears to have been done in six weeks, to 'shake himself free of Waverley' probably the most gigantic exhibition of the 'hair of the dog' recorded in literature. The donnée of this novel was furnished by a Dumfries surveyor of taxes, Mr. Train, the scenery by that early visit to Galloway, in the interest of the reverend toyer with sweetie-wives, which has been recorded.
She comes from a noble family in the south. She was here one day, she saw the life of the Sisters, of us all working here, among the poor soldiers elle a vu ca, et pour tout de bon, s'est donnee a Dieu!" The smile of our nun was rapturous. She was proving its source. Once more we saw the young countess who had given herself to her God.
Ten minutes and more slipped by, during which, still philosophical, he walked slowly round and round the table, straightening a candle here, altering a dish there, humming all the while in a not unmusical voice the song from Louise. He was dwelling fondly upon the line "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée"
The old Iron Crown of the Kings of Lombardy was brought from the dust in which it had been buried, and the new Coronation took place in the cathedral at Milan, the largest in Italy, with the exception of St. Peter's at Rome. Napoleon received the crown from the hands of the Archbishop of Milan, and placed it on his head, exclaiming, "Dieu me l'a donnee, gare a qui la touche."
I recall Le Diable d'Argent as in particular a radiant revelation kept before us a whole long evening and as an almost blinding glare; which was quite right for the donnée, the gradual shrinkage of the Shining One, the money-monster hugely inflated at first, to all the successive degrees of loose bagginess as he leads the reckless young man he has originally contracted with from dazzling pleasure to pleasure, till at last he is a mere shrivelled silver string such as you could almost draw through a keyhole.
All the later work of George Sand, however, all her hope of genuine social renovation, take the simple and serious ground so necessary. "The cure for us is far more simple than we will believe. All the better natures amongst us see it and feel it. It is a good direction given by ourselves to our hearts and consciences; une bonne direction donnée par nous-mêmes
As note calls to note, so thought calls to thought, and feeling to feeling, and the last word is an answer to the first of the inevitable procession. A writer's donnee, they would say, is his own. The reader may only bed Make me something fine after your own fashion! And they would have to be acknowledged partly in the right.
He paused, and they stood breathless and enchained, while the violin trembled under the hand of its master, vibrant and penetrating. "What is it she says?" Max whispered the words. Blake's reply was to murmur the burden of the song in the same hushed way as he had spoken the song of the Noctambule. "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée, toute fleurie semble ma destinée.
But, as the Pawnee example shows, similar natural phenomena may anywhere beget similar myths and rites. In Greece the donnee was a nature myth, and a ritual in which it was enacted. That ritual was a form of sympathetic magic, and the myth explained the performances.
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