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Updated: July 16, 2025
"Bravo!" cried Enguerrand; "all honour to courage! and at Paris it requires great courage to defend the absent." "Nay," answered Alain, in a low voice. "The gentilhomme who will not defend another gentilhomme traduced, would, as a soldier, betray a citadel and desert a flag." "You say M. de Mauleon is changed," said De Breze; "yes, he must be growing old. No trace left of his good looks?"
"Marquis, it is to prevent the possibility of all scandal that I ask you to trust these letters to my discretion." "Foi de gentilhomme?" "Foi de gentilhomme!" "Take them. When and where shall we meet again?" "Soon, I trust; but I must leave Paris this evening.
At all events he assumed as a matter of course that he, in the first rank as gentilhomme, would enter the army, if as a sous-lieutenant, still as gentilhomme.
Molière was fascinated by his youthful wife; her lighter follies charmed: two years riveted the connubial chains. Molière was a husband who was always a lover. The actor on the stage was the very man he personated. Mademoiselle Molière, as she was called by the public, was the Lucile in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
In the first place, Herr Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the poet of Elektra and Der Rosercavalier, conceived the unhappy idea that Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme might be butchered to make a Straussian holiday and serve merely as a portico for the one-act opera that follows. But the portico turned out to be too large for the operatic structure.
"Marquis, it is to prevent the possibility of all scandal that I ask you to trust these letters to my discretion." "Foi de gentilhomme?" "Foi de gentilhomme!" "Take them. When and where shall we meet again?" "Soon, I trust; but I must leave Paris this evening.
This premier gentilhomme de France was proud of his want of reading, and used often to declare that the only two books he had ever skimmed were the wearisome Henriade of Voltaire and the frivolous Liaisons Dangereuses of Laclos.
Such was the moral life of the man pronounced the premier gentilhomme de France by the fathers and grandfathers of the present generation. Let us glance at the physical side of his existence the outward and visible sign of the distinctive title with which he was honored.
Seeing her out in the world, she seemed like other girls, fair and commonplace seeing her at your house, I have said to myself, 'There is the one girl fairer than all others in my eyes, and the one individual to whom all other girls are commonplace." "Is that true? is it?" "True! does a gentilhomme ever lie?
The most passionate lover in the world cannot make a stronger declaration of love than the 'Bourgeois gentilhomme' does in this happy form of words, 'Mourir d'amour me font belle Marquise vos beaux yeux'. I defy anybody to say more; and yet I would advise nobody to say that, and I would recommend to you rather to smother and conceal your passion entirely than to reveal it in these words.
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