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Selfishly exultant, I hug the book more closely, turn to steal a glance at my defeated rival, and recognise Mademoiselle Dufresnoy. She does not see me. I am standing in the inner gloom of the shop, and she is already turning away.
"Against mere courtesy reasonably exercised and in due season, I have nothing to say," replied Mademoiselle Dufresnoy; "but the half-barbarous homage of the Middle Ages is as little to my taste as the scarcely less barbarous refinement of the Addison and Georgian periods. Both are alike unsound, because both have a basis of insincerity.
Presently I fell in with the rest, and found myself conning the placard on the tree. The name that met my astonished eyes on that placard was the name of Hortense Dufresnoy. The sentence ran thus: "Grand Biennial Prize for Poetry Subject: The Pass of Thermopylæ, Successful Candidate, Mademoiselle Hortense Dufresnoy."
It was a French journal devoted to mining interests, and contained a long article dealing with the phosphate industry of Metlaoui, near Gafsa, with views of the works and portraits of its principal representatives. Beneath that of the speaker were printed the words "PAUL DUFRESNOY, Ingenieur civil des mines," and some other titles. An odd coincidence, this meeting, on the eve of my departure.
Three out of the eighteen had come under discussion; one out of the three had been warmly advocated by Béranger, one by Lebrun, and the third by some other academician. The poem selected by Beranger was at length chosen; the sealed enclosure opened; and the name of the successful competitor found to be Hortense Dufresnoy. To Hortense Dufresnoy, therefore, the prize and crown were awarded.
When Louvois proposed to the King for the first time that he should appoint Madame Dufresnoy, his mistress, a lady of the Queen's bedchamber, His Majesty replied, "Would you, then, have them laugh at both of us?" Louvois, however, persisted so earnestly in his request that the King at length granted it.
I had just bought the book you wished to purchase," She looks at me with evident surprise and some coldness; but says nothing. "And I am rejoiced to have this opportunity of transferring it to you." Mademoiselle Dufresnoy makes a slight but decided gesture of refusal. "I would not deprive you of it, Monsieur," she says promptly, "upon any consideration."
When Louvois proposed to the King for the first time that he should appoint Madame Dufresnoy, his mistress, a lady of the Queen's bedchamber, His Majesty replied, "Would you, then, have them laugh at both of us?" Louvois, however, persisted so earnestly in his request that the King at length granted it.
We now arrive at the eighteenth century, and still find no tolerable history of Joan of Arc. In the year 1753 the Abbé Longlet Dufresnoy published a Life of Joan of Arc; it is totally devoid of any merit. In 1790 Clément de l'Averdy published some notices relating to the trial and condemnation of Joan of Arc.
When Louvois proposed to the King for the first time that he should appoint Madame Dufresnoy, his mistress, a lady of the Queen's bedchamber, His Majesty replied, "Would you, then, have them laugh at both of us?" Louvois, however, persisted so earnestly in his request that the King at length granted it.
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