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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was by the advice of the Comte de Gondreville that Colonel Giguet made his son a lawyer. Simon had all the more opportunity of shining at the bar in the arrondissement of Arcis because he was the only barrister, solicitors pleading their own cases in these petty localities.
This daily promenade is one of the petty pleasures of government officials in the provinces when they happen to be on good terms with one another. After they had made a few turns, Simon Giguet came up and joined them saying to the sub-prefect with a mysterious air: "You ought to be faithful to an old comrade who wishes to get you the rosette of an officer and a prefecture."
You'd have made that remark just as readily before the people of Arcis as before us, who are safe friends." "There is one thing against Giguet," observed Monsieur Martener.
Do not chatter heedlessly, and never walk alone with Monsieur Giguet, or Monsieur Olivier Vinet, or the sub-prefect, or Monsieur Martener, in fact, with any one, not even Achille Pigoult. You will not marry any of the young men of Arcis, or of the department. Your fate is to shine in Paris. Therefore I shall now give you charming dresses, to accustom you to elegance.
The young man had really secured certain triumphs in the court of assizes of the Aube, but he was none the less an object of derision to Frederic Marest, procureur-du-roi, Olivier Vinet, the substitute procureur, and the judge, Michu, the three best minds in the court. Simon Giguet, like other men, paid goodly tribute to the mighty power of ridicule that pursued him.
"All of which means," said Goulard, point-blank, "that you will never marry Cecile, my old fellow." "Why not?" said Giguet, ironically.
"He removed their names from the list of emigres, though they certainly took part in that last conspiracy against him." Lechesneau make no delay in sending his whole force of gendarmerie to the forest and to the valley of Cinq-Cygne; telling Giguet to take with him the justice of peace, who, according to the terms of the Code, would then become an auxiliary police-officer.
Flatter the passions of the moment and you will always be a hero, even at Arcis-sur-Aube. "Monsieur le maire," said everybody, "gives noble proof of his firmness of character." Nothing progresses so rapidly as a legal revolt. That evening Madame Marion and her friends organized for the morrow a meeting of "independent electors" in the interests of Simon Giguet, the colonel's son.
All Arcis was now in a commotion, not only on account of the fatal event which had just overtaken the Gondreville family, but because of the great resolution come to at the Giguet house, where Madame Marion and her three servants were hurriedly engaged in putting everything in its usual order, ready to receive her customary guests, whose curiosity would probably bring them that evening in large numbers.
Constantly in conference with his working gardener he mingled little, especially for the last two years, with the life of others; of whom, indeed, he saw little. He took but one meal with the family, namely, his dinner; for he rose too early to breakfast with his son and sister. To his efforts we owe the famous rose Giguet, known so well to all amateurs.
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