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Updated: May 22, 2025
It was there that I began to suffer with hunger. The master and mistress, two old Limousins afterwards murdered, were terrible misers, and the bread, cut in tiny pieces for each meal, was kept under lock and key the rest of the time. You should have seen the mistress at supper time serving the soup, sighing at each ladleful she dished out.
Religious life among the Limousins was, as we have seen, not very pure, but it is a significant law of human nature that the less pure a religion is, the more important in it is the place of the priest and his office. Turgot pressed the curés into friendly service.
The government works all go on as usual on Sundays. The railway trains run precisely as on week days. In short, the Sunday is secularised, or regarded but as a partial holiday. The bricklayers are called limousins; they come from the old province Le Limousin, where they keep their home, and many of them are landowners.
The Limousins had the superstitious doctrines of other semi-barbarous populations, and they had their vices. They passed abruptly and without remorse from a penitential procession to the tavern and the brothel.
They on the one side, the Limousins on the other, had met secretly before the conclave: the eight had sworn not on any account to submit to the election of a traitorous Limousin. All the sleepless night the cardinals might hear the din at the gate, the yells of the people, the tolling of the bells.
If that is true, no men-at-arms are needed; God's pleasure can drive the English out of the land. 'In God's name, said the Maid, 'the men-at-arms will fight, and God will give the victory. Then came the learned Seguin; 'a right sour man was he, said those who knew him. Seguin was a Limousin, and the Limousins spoke in a queer accent at which the other French were always laughing.
The French interest was divided; within this circle there was another circle. The single diocese of Limoges, favored as it had been by more than one pope, had almost strength to dictate to the conclave. The Limousins put forward the Cardinal de St. Eustache.
The Limousins advanced in turn almost every one of their faction; no one but himself thought of Robert of Geneva. In the morning the disturbance without waxed more terrible. A vain attempt was made to address the populace by the three cardinal priors; they were driven from the windows with loud derisive shouts, "A Roman! A Roman!"
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